Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

"Did it in fact get easier or harder to vote in State X?" is, I think, a question that would be considered kind of boring as a political science research problem. These are the kind of questions we journalists need to answer ourselves rather than outsourcing to datasets. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 21, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Pure descriptive work seems to be relatively low status in social sciences. People do it. But the incentives point in the opposite direction and it usually isn't the most "interesting" part of high fliers' career. By contrast, it's the traditional core of journalism. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 21, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

[Now conversely, I wish the people who held power in academia would change their minds and decide that pure descriptive work is important and alter the incentives because I think it's actually very important] — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 21, 2022 Hibernated