When the value of an activity comes from peer participation, bans only work if enough peers comply. Research suggests this isn't happening with the new Australian social media ban, from Bursztyn, Duckworth, Jiménez-Durán, Leonard, Milojević, Roth, and Sunstein www.nber.org/papers/w35162
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🎙Today we published a new report authored by Nic Newman exploring the changing nature of news podcasting.
It looks at the shift from narrative to conversational podcasts, what's driving a pivot to video, monetisation and more.
Find it here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/changing-sha...
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Call me old fashioned, but I think that multiple choice survey items designed to measure someone’s knowledge of an area should contain 1 unambiguously correct answer and 3 unambiguously wrong ones – not 3 that are sort of right and 1 that’s mostly likely to be the one the researchers picked.
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Back to one of my regular moans about democracy measurement - present bias. According to VDEM the UK's 'level of liberal democracy' is now lower than any time since 1945 - a period of time in which business owners and graduates had multiple votes and during which the Troubles occurred. WRONG.
