Political scientist at UMBC. I study U.S. public opinion, media & politics, political psychology & the scholarship of teaching & learning.
Dad, husband, author, Tar Heel, baltimore enthusiast
www.iananson.com
Ian Anson
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🚨 What happens with voters when politicians use simpler language?
New @thejop.bsky.social paper with @rsenninger.bsky.social: simple language changes not just what citizens understand, but who they think politicians are.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
I find it revealing that so many Americans conceive of success in terms of ever more cartoonish *scale* rather than new *objectives.* A truck. No, a bigger truck. No, the biggest truck you can imagine. A house. No, a bigger house. No, the biggest McMansion of all. A boat. No, a bigger boat. No...
I could go have an iced tea and read a magazine, or I could hover over my desk and watch a glmm struggle to converge. Sadly, I know exactly what I'll be doing for the next half hour.
We attached a giant inflatable dinosaur sprinkler to our house so the kids could play. Then we lost the normal hose nozzle.
So now we water the garden by hugging the dinosaur and swaying to and fro.
How does the level of sophistication in political messages affect citizens? While
research has examined how politicians use this element to distinguish themselves,
little is known about how it resonat...
The prevailing drive in tech is to "remove friction" from our lives, eventually transforming us into frictionless spheres floating through a vacuum of loneliness
Had a baby in 2026; we can receive a $1k deposit in a so-called #TrumpAccount.
What they don't tell you until you get this email is that "Trump Accounts" are managed by #Robinhood. They provide "educational resources" to help invest...
Robinhood is a giant retail investor money vacuum. Yikes! 🙃
Tired parent brain: baby was born in 2025.
Anyway, Robinhood is bad... www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/t...
