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Comment on Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment by Wednesday Round Up #17 « Neuroanthropology

Wednesday Round Up #17 « Neuroanthropology — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:01:05 +0000

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Comment on Is Voting Contagious? Evidence from Two Field Experiments by Wednesday Round Up #17 « Neuroanthropology

Wednesday Round Up #17 « Neuroanthropology — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:34:00 +0000

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Comment on Is Voting Contagious? Evidence from Two Field Experiments by A.R.B. The post author

Tue, 20 May 2008 17:45:17 +0000

I didn’t intend them as critiques of the study itself, which I thought was excellent and persuasive. I intended them more as questions to think about as we formulate future research.

Comment on Is Voting Contagious? Evidence from Two Field Experiments by Don Unregistered

Tue, 20 May 2008 16:21:10 +0000

Your two critiques at the end are accurate, but are they fair? I’m not sure that any reasonable adjustment to this study could have addressed those two issues.

Comment on Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment by Is Voting Contagious? Evidence from Two Field Experiments || Abstract Politics

Mon, 19 May 2008 23:07:32 +0000

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Comment on Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment by UCSD grad student Unregistered

Tue, 13 May 2008 18:48:48 +0000

Which, sadly, has much weaker validity than a true experimental design.

Comment on Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment by A.R.B. The post author

Tue, 13 May 2008 18:28:38 +0000

Good question. You’re probably right. I doubt anybody would be able to get approval to run a partisan version of this study, unfortunately. Shoot, I’m surprised that the study in its present form got approval from the ethical review board.

We’ll just have to wait for some politician to try this, I suppose, and see what we can figure out after the fact.

Comment on Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment by UCSD grad student Unregistered

Tue, 13 May 2008 17:25:37 +0000

You write,

…many recipients of treatment #4 called the number listed on the mailer to complain.

This was a non-partisan mailer, right? So what would happen if the mailer were from a partisan group, or from a specific candidate? For example, imagine getting the same mailer, but like this:

Attention voter! We must stop Hillary Clinton from dragging out this nomination contest! Turn out and vote for Obama. We’ll be telling all your neighbors whether you bothered to vote.

In this study, anger over this tactic’s heavyhandedness was directed at the non-partisan group running the study. But in my example, would anger be directed at Obama? Would it cause a rise in turnout, but in Clinton’s favor? I’m inclined to think so.

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KB Plugins — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:23:07 +0000

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Comment on Vote Buying or Turnout Buying? Machine Politics and the Secret Ballot by Abstract Politics - Follow Up -- Off Topic: Stop procrastinating and get back to work!

Tue, 13 May 2008 17:02:09 +0000

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