John V. Kane

@uptonorwell.bsky.social

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Political Scientist. Professor at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs. Experiments, data analysis, guitar, drums, fan of comedy. Two boys and exhausted all the time. More at www.johnvkane.com

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Absolutely flattered to have one of my guides featured in StataCorp LLC's "Community Corner"! I've learned SO MUCH from other Stata users over the years, so it's a real thrill to see Stata highlighting my "Graph Editor" guide on their website--what an honor! 🥹 www.stata.com/stata-news/n...

Community corner: Learning to use the Graph Editor | Stata Newswww.stata.com Learn how to customize your graph without writing code, apply the same edits to multiple graphs, and more in John V. Kane’s concise guide.

Genuinely *beyond thrilled* to announce that I have just signed a contract with University of California Press to publish my book, "Truth Addict: How to Start Thinking Like a Social Scientist in a Data-Driven World." It's a true passion project & I'm so excited to be writing it! Wish me luck! 😁

🚨New working paper w/ some terrific Stony Brook grad students! Using a pre-registered experiment, we test whether shifts in groups' voting behavior can change partisans' sentiments toward members of those groups (Black, LGT & Muslims). Answer? No. polisky preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

🚨New working paper with Sam Perry! Do religious beliefs affect beliefs about climate change? If so, which beliefs, and why? We argue & find evidence that belief in divine (vs. human) control over Earth's fate lowers concern about climate change. Preprint here: doi.org/10.33774/aps... polisky

Stata folks: Do you ever use Stata's "Graph Editor"? Do your students? I just published a detailed guide for it on Medium👍 From beginner to long-time user, I wrote it to be useful for everyone. Lots of tips & tricks (including how to use .grec code!!). Enjoy!😎 polisky medium.com/the-stata-ga...

Getting More Out of Stata’s “Graph Editor”: A Concise Guidemedium.com Whether a new or long-time Stata user, this guide reveals key tips & tricks for getting more out of Stata’s awesome “Graph Editor” feature.

Many thanks to TIME for publishing my piece on incumbency advantage & the 2024 election. It is based on an article that is forthcoming at Political Science Research & Methods. tl;dr: nothing is ever certain, but incumbency is very powerful & shouldn't be overlooked. time.com/6972045/joe-...

Biden's Overlooked Advantagetime.com Biden will have one surprisingly big advantage in 2024—and it has nothing to do with Donald Trump

Ever have students get confused about correlation vs. bivariate regression? If so, I wrote a short piece on @Medium about a key difference that many (esp. new) analysts can easily miss. Also features a fun @Stata graph, natch. 😎 polisky medium.com/the-stata-ga...

Correlation vs. Regression: A Key Difference That Many Analysts Missmedium.com Correlation and regression analysis have many similarities, but they also have a major conceptual difference that analysts often miss.

Many thanks to the great Erin Rossiter for inviting me to present to her wonderful group of PhD students at @notredame.bsky.social! It's truly a pleasure to talk about null results in experiments! If you'd like me to present to your students, this or next semester, email/DM me! 😁

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Interested in measuring Attentiveness in Self-Administered Surveys? Check out our new review piece published today in Public Opinion Quarterly: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Hey Stata polisky / econ folks: Ever make bar graphs? Do your students? If so, check out a 3-part series on bar graphs that I wrote for the #StataGallery on Medium! Lots of tips and tricks for making prettier visualizations. 🧵 medium.com/@jvk221

John V. Kane – Mediummedium.com Read writing from John V. Kane on Medium. John V. Kane is an Associate Professor at NYU's Center for Global Affairs. He researches political attitudes & experimental methods. Twitter: @UptonOrwell.

Thanks Stata & @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social 's schemes for helping me make some nice graphs for my son’s 2nd grade science project! The artwork is all my wife. I *may* have had a hand in the punny title. My son created the data set (and…ate the candy). p.s., null results have never been so delicious.

Many thanks to The LSE USA blog for letting Ian Anson & I write about our new study in PG&I! Upshot: Some people may dislike a vaccine--but what they REALLY dislike is losing an election to the other side. blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

How partisanship can help solve the social problems it causesblogs.lse.ac.uk In the US and elsewhere, acceptance of public health measures, including vaccines often falls along partisan lines, with Republicans being more hesitant to receive the COVID-19 vaccine compared to …

Had the honor of reviewing Jamie Druckman’s book, “Experimental Thinking” for POQ. If you do experiments, get this book. Aside from the fact that Jamie is an incredible (and kind!) scholar, the book has more wisdom-per-page than anything I’ve ever read. academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

🚨Stata folks: Do you or your students ever want to make "stacked" bar graphs in Stata? In Pt.3 of my guides on bar graphs, I cover how to make a variety of stacked bar graphs & techniques for making them prettier. Includes all code 👍 Enjoy! 😎 #StataGallery polisky medium.com/the-stata-ga...

🚨It's finally out AND #OpenAccess!!! Do you do survey experiments? This article is for you! 7 things that increase the risk of null/non-significant results & how to detect/prevent them. It's one of my fav things I've ever written so I hope you enjoy ☺️ polisky cup.org/3OQhKNv

More than meets the ITT: A guide for anticipating and investigating nonsignificant results in survey experiments | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Cambridge Corecup.org More than meets the ITT: A guide for anticipating and investigating nonsignificant results in survey experiments

Do you or your students ever need to make bar graphs in Stata? If so, I just published a "Pt.2" of my guides on advanced bar graphs, this time covering visualizing cross-tabs, -catplot- & adding a "Total" category. Includes all code. Hope it's helpful for you! polisky medium.com/the-stata-ga...

Ever need to make bar graphs of means in Stata? Ever wish you could add confidence intervals? If so, I made a new guide in the #StataGallery on @Medium on how to do it using -cibar- and/or -coefplot-. Lots of examples, tricks & of course all of the code. 😎 medium.com/the-stata-ga...

🚨It's finally out! Ian Anson & I test whether informing Republicans that getting vaccinated can help "ensure they are healthy enough to vote and beat the Democrats!" (aka, our "shot to win" treatment) increases vaccine openness. We find evidence that it does! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Partisan solutions for partisan problems: electoral threat and Republicans’ openness to the COVID-...www.tandfonline.com Attitudinal differences among partisan identifiers are commonplace in the American political landscape. As a prominent example, group identities such as Republican party identification increasingly...

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This is a handy guide on experimental problems that cause effect-size under-estimation. Has practical tips to avoid these issues during design. Pitched at poli-sci, but should be useful to any behavioral scientist. Just needs a companion on effect-size over-estimation.

🚨One of my favorite things I've EVER written is conditionally accepted at JEPS! Do you run survey experiments? Ever get null results? This article is for you! 7 things that can increase the risk of null/ns results & how to detect/prevent them 👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1wHDe...

Kane_More Than Meets the ITT_JEPS_CondAccept.pdfdrive.google.com

Do you use @Stata for regression analysis? If so, I wrote a guide for #StataGallery on @Medium that covers not just how to make nice marginsplots for visualizing results, but also how to *combine multiple marginsplots* into one graph. Hope it helps! 😎 polisky medium.com/the-stata-ga...

Looking at US pres. election data for an R&R and am fascinated by the recent decline in margins of victory. Unsurprising in our era of polarization, but given the historical trend, suggests either a very close 2024 election and/or that another big political shake-up is coming. 🧐

Do you or your students ever have to clean data in Stata? If so, I wrote a tutorial for @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social 's amazing "Stata Gallery". I cover the most essential techniques: generating, replacing, recoding, rescaling, encoding, destringing & lots more! polisky medium.com/the-stata-ga...

Cleaning Data in Statamedium.com An introduction to essential Stata commands for generating, recoding, and rescaling variables.

Just wrapped up another wonderful semester of "Advanced Data Analysis for Global Affairs" at NYU's Center for Global Affairs. Such a fun course to teach, and 2 terrific students surprised me by wearing Stata t-shirts to our last class! 😂

🤯A conditional acceptance 7 days ago, R&R on a 2nd paper yesterday, and acceptance on a 3rd paper today! Thank you, reviewers, editors, co-author, Ian Anson!!! This certainly helps bring me some holiday cheer as I fall ever further into the abyss that is end-of-semester grading 😵‍💫

*Adds to ever-growing list of insane sentences that are now just news on a random weekday*

Realizing that a big conceptual shift for many students is to understand that a "hypothesis" is not necessarily the author's argument. Thus, finding null results is not "a flaw" of the study. As Philip Tetlock has said, hypotheses are ideas to be tested, not treasures to be protected.

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Hey Stata users, please check out the Stata Gallery run by @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social . Lots of great tutorials on data viz, making maps, working with do files, and more! Highly recommend! 👍 medium.com/the-stata-ga...

Many thanks to The Messenger for featuring my piece on the 2024 election and incumbency advantage (based on some research currently under review!). CC: @daviddarmofal.bsky.social themessenger.com/opinion/joe-...

Biden’s Overlooked Advantagethemessenger.com Biden will have one surprisingly big advantage in 2024 — and it has nothing to do with Donald Trump