Research Obsession Day 8: A reminder to meet voters where they are, featuring research by @mollyow.bsky.social on persuading voters on climate. Plus: why microtargeting ain't all that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

My co-author Leah R. Rosenzweig wrote a blog post about a social media experiment we ran on vaccine hesitancy in Kenya and Nigeria www.cgdev.org/blog/us-just...

K. Munger argues that, when an agnostic approach is applied, the goal of prediction is generically impossible. A. Jang, @mollyow.bsky.social, S. Wang & P. M. Aronow situate Munger’s critique in a broader literature and point to ways in which gnosis can facilitate the accumulation of knowledge.

Congratulations Assistant Professor Molly Offer-Westort (@mollyow.bsky.social) on becoming a 2024 Carnegie Corporation of New York Fellow! This fellowship will support Molly Offer-Westort in her work to study how social media platforms impact our democracy

The 2024 syllabus for my Advanced topics Causal Inference & Machine Learning course is up! @uchicago.bsky.social @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social t.co/3P6nO98aVA

This is a fantastic opportunity for graduate students working in data science—across a wide range of disciplines. Info session Sept 6. datascience.uchicago.edu/research/pos...