I think the delegation framework offered is a useful one, but the question to me then is "how do we get people not to delegate". My answers are (a) making delegation harder, by texting people instead of opt-in samples, and (b) making the cognitive burdens less so that people don't need to delegate
Corruption watch
A thoughtful essay from @yamilrvelez.bsky.social on the LLM-bots-in-surveys problem
newinstruments.substack.com/p/who-answer...
Normal people, especially those not that interested in politics and who therefore may be actually be persuadable, don’t want to take 15 minute or longer message testing surveys
Though I will note my skepticism of the "chat with your survey like you used to chat with telephone interviewers" proposed solution. Sure, voice-to-text entry is appealing to some, but respondents' primary frame of talking to bots is customer service, and they *hate* it .
Democrats should find every opportunity to embrace anti-corruption legislation they can this year, both for substantive and electoral reasons. (So should Republicans, for that matter)
Some of us have been warning for a while now about how the Trump Administration and Roberts court are waging a campaign to overturn the Reconstruction Amendments, and yes I meant all of them
TIL there's an "End Prediction Market Corruption Act" bill that would ban (a subset) of government officials from trading on non-public information, sponsored by Merkley and co-sponsored by four fellow Senate Dems, and IMHO more lawmakers should get on board.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
We asked about other modes of interviewing in a combo text-to-web and panel-to-web survey in October 2024 (and tech has improved since then, admittedly), and of those who preferred a different interface, basically no one wanted an automated phone survey. (pics from last year AAPOR presentation)
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This is why we have allies and don't fuck them over.
@general-ben.bsky.social and I wrote about the importance of allies and the US maintaining a presence abroad. It's not charity, it's for our own national security. www.thecipherbrief.com/column_artic...
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With all seriousness, I suggest that the citizenship stripping caper is an attempt to revive the institution of slavery. Don't believe me? Ask Stephen Miller. I explain on to @ianmasters.bsky.social on www.backgroundbriefing.org
