Bad Mood Rising? - We see trouble on the way! 📏 🚨 New pre-print explores what happens if researchers violate assumptions of dimensionality and measurement equivalence in cross-national research on 'democratic mood' - citizens' general preference for democracy. 👇 📚 osf.io/preprints/os...

In this paper with Philip Warncke we show that even having infinite data will not solve the problem. Indeed, two researchers with massive amount of data will still end up with different results. [4/4] Check out the full paper 👇👇👇 pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sr...

Many people seem to think that this is just a problem of sample, and that by having more and more data, this problem will become smaller and smaller until finally disappearing. [3/4]

This means that the result of the measurement depends not only on what we want to measure (e.g. happiness), but also on the procedure we used for the measurement. [2/4]

🚨 New paper 🚨 Can big data solve all our measurement problems? Measuring constructs like opinions, happiness, etc. is problematic as it depends on various choices, including the choice of variables and model. [1/4] pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sr...

📖 New open access publication 📖 Do citizens of different countries differ in political attitude constraint? Are Slovenes just as predictable as the Swiss? How stable is political attitude coherence across time? Find out here: doi.org/10.1007/s111... #polbehavior #Polisky #socialpsyc