Andy Guess

@andyguess

Digital media and politics, @PUPolitics @PrincetonSPIA @PrincetonCITP. Research affiliate, @CSMAP_NYU. Co-founder, @journalqd. Dad of Ipa🐰 and Bagel🐇.

Brooklyn, NY andyguess.com Joined May 2007

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Andy Guess @andyguess Oct 15

Listening to @UpFirst podcast increases trust in podcast news + NPR but that doesn’t spill over into trust in news more generally. Glad this paper w/ @junghwanyang @simonsaysnothin @p_barbera is out!

Jonathan Robinson @jon_m_rob Oct 15

Randomizing uptake of NPR's @UpFirst podcast for 5 days increases news consumption & knowledge of events (esp. among more right-leaning voters), trust in NPR, etc but not trust in the news more generally; no effect on attitudes or political beliefs. An @andyguess et al. joint

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Andy Guess @andyguess Oct 12

JQD:DM (@journalqd) is announcing a Special Workflow Issue that will incorporate AI into the paper production and review process in a way that is designed to maintain the primacy of human judgment.

Deadline for Letters of Inquiry is Oct. 25. Join us!

journalqd.org/special-workfl…

Andy Guess @andyguess Oct 11

Don't forget to add $6 (+ sales tax) for a "SmarteCarte" to hold your luggage!

Charlie @ccbaker2023 Oct 11

Why do we charge nearly 12 bucks for public transit from JFK? The AirTrain is driverless + fully automated, yet it’s $8.75 for just a few stops, then $3 more for the subway.

We should be welcoming people to NYC, not ripping them off. Got back from Berlin where it’s 5 Euros total

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Andy Guess @andyguess Oct 11

The entire political leadership of this country has had its brain fried by the internet.

David Gura @davidgura Oct 11

A letter from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, and a member of the Senate Finance Committee:

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Andy Guess @andyguess Aug 25

"Everyone knows" social media gives a distorted view of public opinion (...right?). But how?

In a new paper, we trace the process of self-selection in who posts to social media, which of their opinions they choose to post about, and how this is perceived. See ⤵️ to learn more

Jay Van Bavel, PhD Verified account @jayvanbavel Aug 24

Social media discourse is driven by false #polarization

Analyzing 1.7 million social media posts, a series of controlled experiments, and a large global survey covering 40 countries (total N = 49,222), we find that

(1) strong ideologues post their opinions significantly more often than moderate individuals
(2) extreme attitudes are posted more often than moderate attitudes.
(3) This general pattern replicates robustly across 40 countries
(4) the opinions that users post are more hostile and toxic than the beliefs they keep to themselves.

Across studies we find extreme opinions are overrepresented on social media by at least 6% and up to 22% compared to their true prevalence in our samples.
osf.io/preprints/psya…

This project was led by @small_schulz and @ClaireRobertson and includes @H_Sjastad @AshuAshok @LisaFOswaldo @junghwanyang @simonsaysnothin and @andyguess

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