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Misleading Percentages: The Impact of Statistical Reporting on the Offender Employment Post-Release Data - Cody N Porter, Peter Finn, Mircea Zloteanu, 2025 Employment is essential for reducing recidivism. Accurately reporting employability post-release from prison figures is important for understanding real trends ...

📰Online First Article!!📰

Misleading Percentages: The Impact of Statistical Reporting on the Offender Employment Post-Release Data

By @drcodyporter.bsky.social Dr Peter Finn & @mzloteanu.bsky.social

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What sounds more impressive?
A "98.0% increase" in employment or a "9.6pp. increase"?

If you said the first one, read our latest paper #openaccess to find out why such figures can mislead:

W/ @drcodyporter.bsky.social & Dr Pete Finn

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Post-Election Reflection: An Expert Roundtable: APSA 2024 Engaging the U.S. Election Webinar Series - Join APSA for our fifth and final webinar in a series exploring the 2024 U.S. campaign and election from multiple perspectives. Registration is free. How are political science experts reflecting upon with the results and [...]

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I absolutely second this. A really incredible feat in a very short time!!

Should we trust news from AI? ChatGPT and political information  - Election Analysis - United States Dr. Caroline Leicht Tutor at the University of Glasgow.Caroline’s research focuses on the intersection of gender, media and politics. E-Mail: Caroline.Leicht@glasgow.ac.ukTwitter: @carolineleichtBlueS...

3) Building on our larger project on generative AI, @pete-d-finn.bsky.social, @lmcbell.bsky.social, Amy Tatum and I wrote a piece about AI (e.g., ChatGPT) being used as a source for political information and the challenges this presents.

Link to article: www.electionanalysis.ws/us/president...

This is my initial post #2024USElections round up piece for @lseblogs.bsky.social USAPP site 🗳️

Thanks as ever to USAPP site editor Chris Gilson, a better curator of ideas you will struggle to find!

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Interested in state level US politics or whether AI can help with social science research?

This article I wrote with @lmcbell.bsky.social, Amy Tatum, and Caroline Leicht in the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social journal PSR might be up your street 👍

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