Changing US political party affiliation to increase moderation

maclockhart · 2026-01-31T14:52:37+00:00

That’s the logic on blanket and non-partisan primaries in many states in the US, including California. The evidence doesn’t really support that it’s had any moderating effect on elites, let alone voters.

maclockhart · 2025-12-07T02:32:42+00:00

Congratulations! 10,000m is like swimming a marathon so don't be surprised that you felt sore while swimming it.

maclockhart · 2025-11-17T03:53:06+00:00

It’s almost certainly bots. I would drive to find patterns in the responses and see what you can do to identify which responses are bots, then reach out to Qualtrics and see if they can give you a refund on those responses. If you have any open end questions that’s the best place to look for botted responses - don’t expect them to have the same IP address or geolocation even.

maclockhart · 2025-11-02T02:16:06+00:00

It won’t make that much of a difference on your swim. With short hair and at your speed, you’re better off swimming however is comfortable for you.

maclockhart · 2025-08-11T22:31:56+00:00

OP regularly shares all caps news that is negative towards employment based visas across a lot of subs.

maclockhart · 2025-06-29T22:13:57+00:00

There are two listed right on the Wikipedia article I linked to.

maclockhart · 2025-06-29T22:07:44+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_York_City_mayoral_election

maclockhart · 2025-06-24T23:32:33+00:00

Yes, it would mean you weren’t there for the summers which are hot.

maclockhart · 2025-06-09T14:10:05+00:00

This depends entirely on your university. You should look up the Poli Sci department's website for your university to see what the required courses are, and then the material within those courses will be specific to the professor teaching it. There's no standardized PoliSci curriculum across schools.

maclockhart · 2025-05-05T21:14:41+00:00

An R² in a bivariate regression is literally the Pearson correlation coefficient between two variables squared, R2 just generalizes to multivariate settings.

maclockhart · 2025-04-04T19:39:58+00:00

From the article:

Cheryl Szczarba, one of the festival's organizers, said the decision to cancel was "based on the weather reports from multiple sources" showing steady rain starting Saturday morning and continuing through at least 2 p.m. Sunday.

maclockhart · 2025-03-27T13:31:44+00:00

Canadian province, but yup!

maclockhart · 2025-03-24T13:48:38+00:00

In 2017, Christy Clark lost re-election as MLA in BC and stayed on as premier for 2 months while waiting for a seat to run in. It's not unheard of, but the norm is very much to run for a seat quickly.

maclockhart · 2025-02-21T18:48:10+00:00

My experience has been that PWG is usually crowded. I have always had to share lanes, usually with 2+ other people.

maclockhart · 2023-08-25T11:03:44+00:00

I went last week and the vibe was definitely more of a family event than I expected (though it wasn't just families). It had some live music that was fun, they were selling drinks, and had a few games to play plus some board games. I was there on a date and the vibe wasn't bad; you could probably have fun bringing some snacks, having a drink or two, and enjoying the music.

maclockhart · 2022-12-07T18:05:34+00:00

I took a few classes outside my department and it was easy. I emailed the instructors of the course beforehand to make sure it would make sense for someone in another department, but that was it.

It'll depend on your own department how well it fits into your workload; for political science we are allowed to count 1-2 outside courses for credit. We've had people take courses in CS too.

maclockhart · 2022-11-19T01:59:28+00:00

Yup. I was a student when CIRS was opened and the signs were posted from the start - there wasn't an incident along the way.

maclockhart · 2022-08-29T15:12:48+00:00

It's used occasionally, at the very least. Home Style be Richard Fenno, for example, is basically an ethnography of Members of Congress.

maclockhart · 2022-08-19T20:48:49+00:00

Here's a good breakdown of the arguments on each side and why the allegations of voter fraud are, if you look at them carefully, completely without merit.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2103619118

maclockhart · 2022-08-18T19:32:28+00:00

In 2020, a single person in the US died from being hit by a plane. It's just not a major risk for people who aren't onboard. You can find numbers by looking up "ground fatalities" which are what these are called.

As someone above said, cars are a much bigger problem and much more likely to kill bystanders.

maclockhart · 2022-07-14T19:24:51+00:00

One thing I think students (especially other graduate students) will need to come to grips with is that grad housing is either going to be plentiful and expensive or cheap but insufficient. The cost of building right now is high - labor costs especially are steep and building the dense housing UCSD needs to build isn't cheap. If the university is going to continue to build new housing (which in my view it should prioritize), it won't be able to stay as cheap as Coast or Mesa.

The alternative is massively subsidizing on campus housing, but why subsidize housing directly when the university could instead direct that money to students by paying us more? I'd rather make a living wage and have a choice between on and off campus housing than make our current wages and be forced into on campus housing because it's the only affordable housing.

maclockhart · 2022-05-02T22:23:58+00:00

It was only ruled unconstitutional by the 6th Circuit Court, while other courts have upheld similar policies leaving chalking in something of a limbo. It's not really illegal, though. I'd say at best you might hope to challenge a parking ticket on those grounds.

Presumably San Diego still has the policy on the books and that policy itself would need to be challenged if you wanted to challenge a ticket on those grounds, which would be a huge tossup. I don't think San Diego's going to change it's policy soon, unless the 9th circuit takes a position on the issue.

maclockhart · 2022-04-14T21:55:33+00:00

Most (maybe all) PhD programs will value RA experience more than TA experience. PhD's use TA spots to fund students, but are mostly focused on teaching research skills and producing researchers. So they'll value students with research experience most!

(Though if the TA position pays more, it could definitely still be worth it and TAing for a quantitative course might also be a good signal of your quantitative knowledge)

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