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Samuel Coavoux

@scoavoux.bsky.social
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Social scientist. Associate Prof University of Geneva, Affiliated researcher @crestsociology.bsky.social. I study cultural inequalities & digital technologies. scoavoux.github.io

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Pierre Bernat @pierrebernat.bsky.social · 12h
🧶 Dans un courrier adressé à des parents d'élèves, le Préfet du Pas de Calais demande explicitement aux parents de s' "assurer que [leur] enfant s'abstienne de manifester dans les prochains jours" Puisqu'il aime rappeler les sanctions à ses administrés, rappelons au préfet quelques règles...
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 29/09/2026
"Replication crisis" reforms like preregistration & pre-analysis plans were developed to control false positives in experimental research. Does that work in observational studies? Our new paper in Sociological Methods & Research argues for a different approach. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A Replication Framework for Observational Research: From Specification Restriction to Specification Expansion
Jonathan Ben-Menachem https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8092-0848 jbenmenachem@gmail.com, Ari Galper https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7909-8837, and Nic Fishman
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Sociology has remained relatively insulated from debates about the “replication crisis.” Heeding calls to consider replication more deeply, we introduce a distinction between two types of research reforms that have emerged in the wake of the crisis: specification-restricting and specification-expanding reforms. Specification restriction is often promoted as a way to increase the repeatability of research findings by controlling false positives. We argue that this statistical justification is less compelling in observational contexts—where the assumptions licensing false-positive control are harder to sustain and rigid ex ante analytical commitments can instead enshrine fragile specifications—than in experimental contexts. We further argue that apparently low replication rates do not necessarily imply a high prevalence of false positive findings. Instead, we propose a replication framework centered on specification-expanding reforms, stronger incentives for confirmatory research, and meta-analysis. This approach equips sociologists to assess the repeatability of findings and build a more cumulative discipline.
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL Social Research Institute recruitment poster for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science at the Centre for Quantitative Social Science. Applications close 30 October 2026.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Max Weber postdoc program at @eui-eu.bsky.social has its deadline 16 October, for a September 2027 start: www.eui.eu/en/academic-...
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Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies
Making a Difference in Global Academia
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Christina Viehmann @christinaviehmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🔍 How robust are findings based on topic modeling? Our 🏆 Top Faculty Award article on #TopicModeling + #MultiverseAnalysis is now #openaccess in Communication Methods & Measures. 📄 doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2026.2714769 🔁 gesistsa.github.io/multiverse_tm/ wonderful teamwork @gesis.org 👇
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Beyond beyond standardization: studying robustness of empirical claims based on topic modeling through multiverse analysis
While topic modeling is widely used, some scholars have already announced that the application of topic modeling in social science research is impossible to standardize. Meanwhile, researchers have...
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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Many scientific fields are already drowning in plausible-seeming but unverified papers": this is publish or perish, not LLM. Science has been drowning before chatGPT and is just drowning more. If LLMs are used for more papers, they won't improve science. But they could be used for better papers.
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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the whole idea of *deciding* what to believe is very funny
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Jan Vanhove @janhove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New blog post: "Cluster analysis: A skeptic’s guide". In which I ask a few questions that social scientists wishing to identify hidden classes in their data ought to address. janhove.github.io/posts/2026-0...
A two-dimensional scatterplot showing a three-cluster solution.

Caption: "Figure 2: A visualisation of a Latent Profile Analysis fit. Such visualisations may help readers appreciate that the clusters aren’t nicely separated and that the researchers’ notion of clusters may not correspond to their own."Table of contents:

Refresher: What is cluster analysis?
What are the clusters for?
What clusters, exactly?
Does the pipeline work?
What does the solution look like?
When running follow-up analyses, how is the uncertainty in the cluster assignments taken into account?
Was it worth it?
Conclusion
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Benoît de Courson @bdecourson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
J'ai un nouveau sociologue préféré
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
4-year postdoc(s) at Copenhagen Business School on project The Business of Corruption: Why Business Elites Collude or Combat Political Corruption, led by @mkjustesen.bsky.social. Start: summer 2027, deadline 18 September. www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Causal inference is the art of knowing exactly why your estimate isn't causal
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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excellence PhD scholarships from the Swiss government for one-year internship or three year projects www.sbfi.admin.ch/en/swiss-gov...
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Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships at a Glance
The following information is intended for individuals interested in applying for a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship. Here you will find all the details needed to prepare your scholarship applic...
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Sciences Po médialab @medialab-scpo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Comment l'IA transforme-t-elle la publicité ? Le médialab et le @cso-sciencespo.bsky.social s'associent pour un séminaire sur l'émergence des agents IA comme acteurs économiques. 📅Vendredi 11/09 à 11h15 🗣️ @koraycaliskan.bsky.social et Donald MacKenzie 📍Campus de Sciences Po Infos & inscription 🔽
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Towards Agentic Economies: Eight Cases of New Commerce under AI | médialab Sciences Po
Ce séminaire co-organisé avec le CSO accueillera Koray Caliskan (Parsons School of Design) et Donald MacKenzie (Université d'Edinburgh). Ils présenteront leur récent article, qui traite de la manière ...
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Dr. Hab Sophie Sacquin-Mora @sacquin-mo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
This is your yearly reminder that if you're interested in applying to a CNRS researcher permanent position in France, NOW is the right time to contact labs and build a research project. (not in December when the applications will officially open)
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ALF It's time
Alt: ALF It's time
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Pol Solé Navais @polsolenavais.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
📣📣📣 The University of Gothenburg (Sweden) is recruiting 25 (yes, 25!) Assistant Professors in a wide range of disciplines (from arts to education to geology to maths), two of these at our Faculty. Happy to talk to anyone interested in knowing more about Sweden, Gothenburg or GU!
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Gothenburg Global Scholars Initiative
The University of Gothenburg is launching the Global Scholars Initiative – a coordinated international recruitment effort comprising 25 research positions across a broad range of disciplines and facul...
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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Volleyball is more detrimental to life expectancy than mountaineering, says observational study that selects on surviving long enough to make it to wikipedia 🤔. If you want to live longer fencing, tennis, skiing, golf and horse riding are all up there statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/22/t...
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Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New paper w @samfriedman.bsky.social. We know elites try to convince ppl that they're ordinary via their class origin or their taste. But what happens when those attempts at ordinariness fail, and does this affect how we think about inequality. journals-sagepub-com.lse.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 03/08/2026
I said: “The 1950s family could not even reproduce itself for one generation. They couldn’t even convince their children that this was the right way to arrange their lives. So it failed immediately.”
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The Great Romance Slump
Why are so few young people finding love?
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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Et les pyromanes?
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is quite the finding for a device thats just a plagiarism machine, or whatever we are calling it this week. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Large language models can predict the results of social science experiments - Nature
Large language models can be used to estimate the results of social science experiments about as accurately as a group of human forecasters—even for experiments published after the...
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A new faculty position in media and politics at Stanford: facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor in Communication - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Communication at Stanford University seeks applicants for a junior appointment at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor. We invite applications from individuals working at the...
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Assistant professorship in political science at the @eui-sps.bsky.social! Come and work with us. www.eui.eu/About/JobOpp...
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Open competitions for academic posts
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026
‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Pierre Bataille @pierrebat.cpesr.fr · 03/07/2026
Et je suis plutôt bon public en vrai. Mais on a pas bien conscience de ce que les revues reçoivent parfois haha.
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Hendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de · 26/06/2026
+++ NEW ARTICLE +++ Exploring solid use cases for LLMs is hard because most treat their “prompts” either as a trade secret or as not important. Both stances are bad. In this article, I change this by sharing useful academic “prompts” with you. www.hendrik-erz.de/post/how-i-u...
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How I use Generative AI in My Work
Locally-running generative AI has made considerable jumps in quality in the past three years. I think it is finally time to evaluate such models in …
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 24/06/2026
How to give a bad talk www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How to give a bad talk https://www.nature.com/articles/s41568-026-00954-8
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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!
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Assistant Professor in Political Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Nature Human Behavior is searching for a new editor to handle Computational Social Science: nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour Organisation: Nature Portfolio Location: Shanghai, Milan or Pune – hybrid working model Closing date: 10th July 2026 About Springer Nature...
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Fabien Accominotti @faccominotti.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
UW-Madison Sociology is hiring! We're inviting applications for an assistant professor position in the fields of demography, soc of population, and health, to begin August 2027. Come join @uwsoc.bsky.social and the great @cdeuw.bsky.social! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Sociology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · 10/06/2026
From surveys to data donations: “Search and Stream” offers new research data on 🔍Google Search, 🎧Spotify streaming, and digital participation — linkable to the German ISSP 2024 survey. Now available at GESIS: 🔗ZA9079: doi.org/10.4232/1.14700 🔗ZA9080: doi.org/10.4232/1.14701
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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
c'est fascinant la circulation de cette critique magique, "c'est holiste", comme si les gens qui défendent des explications structurelles n'avaient jamais pensé à des mécanismes. Parler du patriarchat comme "totalité abstraite" c'est vraiment méprisant pour celles qui en décrivent le fonctionnement.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This wonderful work shows an AI-assisted workflow that could reduce reproducibility check cost and time by orders of magnitude. Soon, large-scale projects like SCORE may only be needed for training and validation evidence. Talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijad... Paper www.leoyang.org/publication/...
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Keynote: Yiqing Xu
YouTube video by Stanford Data Science
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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
social science today: rain and physical activity are just correlated because observational data but iphones cause fertility decline because DiD...
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 09/06/2026
Ugh. Not good reporting about unrefereed preprints. Sabrina Tavernese at NYT says two studies were "published," one of which was "published in the National Bureau of Economic Research" (not a journal) the other is on SSRN (not identified).
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Why Are Birthrates Down? Two New Studies Point to Phones.
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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Wake up babe new markup language just dropped
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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Interroger des LLMs plutôt que des humains, ça marche? Nous avons montré que les LLMs ne parviennent pas à prédire la valeur moyenne d'une variable dans une sous-population, que chaque modèle a une faible variance dans ses réponses, mais forte entre modèle journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Machine Bias. How Do Generative Language Models Answer Opinion Polls?1 - Julien Boelaert, Samuel Coavoux, Étienne Ollion, Ivaylo Petev, Patrick Präg, 2025
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly presented as a potential substitute for humans, including as research subjects. However, there is no sci...
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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
✨ We are hiring @crestumr.bsky.social ✨ Post-doc position, up to 3 years, in a Horizon project. Profile: at the intersection of NLP & Social Sciences. More information here: shorturl.at/TxDLN 🥰 RT appreciated 🥰
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Post-doctoral Position: Computational Analysis of Judicial Decisions (CREST/CNRS-Ecole polytechnique) – CSS @ IP-Paris
Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/06/2026
Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...
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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) is hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science #postdoc
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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Un entretien intéressant sur l'état de la publication scientifique. Cadré par le problème de l'IA, évidemment, mais les premiers paragraphes viennent tout de suite contredire ce cadrage: les problèmes du système de publication sont bien antérieurs aux IAgen laviedesidees.fr/Les-publicat...
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Les publications scientifiques à l’heure de l’IA
À la faveur de l'essor des IA génératives, la publication d'articles scientifiques s'est considérablement accrue. Ce développement exponentiel tend à se faire au détriment de l'évaluation par les pair...
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Essex looking for two sociology lecturers - one data science, one criminology focused vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecr…
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
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Ingmar Weber @ingmarweber.de · 27/05/2026
This is a fairly large (EUR 29M) initiative at Universität des Saarlandes around using data and computational methods to understand and support societal tranformations. As part of this initiative, *five* professorships will be created. Talk to me about details.
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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
@joefrancis.bsky.social's Damascene conversion on the merits and limits of AI for peer reviewing is worth a read: thepoorrichworld.substack.com/p/reflection...
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Reflections on My Adventures in Replication
My attempts to demonstrate the problems in the knowledge production system have led me to a Damascene conversion on the need for peer review
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 21/05/2026
I guess the real issue here is that we're clinging to stories about heroic individuality long, *long* after that ceased to be an apt way to think about most intellectual work.
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Eris @isolyth.dev · 18/05/2026
Valid computer command in the year twenty twenty six.
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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Great pres by @breznaunate.bsky.social on the reproducibility of sociology. One key takeaway is that when there is neither data nor code are shared, the result most likely doesn't hold. zenodo.org/records/1995...
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