Comments for Michael W. Sances

Comment on Blogging again by Sy - Web Design High Wycombe

Sy - Web Design High Wycombe — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:18:30 +0000

Thanks for that wordpress visual editor fix link!! Just what i needed to sort an issue of mine, very grateful.

Comment on “Spacing Children Farther Apart Benefits Older Siblings” by Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:21:20 +0000

I agree, it would be better if children were spaced apart by maybe 3-5 years. It makes the first born more secure of his position and avoids a lot of siblings conflicts.

Comment on How to measure media coverage? by New York Hospital

New York Hospital — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:54:33 +0000

Michael,

I would track the keyword over a period of several months using the Google Adwords tool. In addition, I would monitor Google Trends and plot the data points accordingly. At least this way you’ll have an idea of interest of the keyword based on search.

Comment on Does the Federal Reserve collect data on charitable giving? by Mike Sances

Mike Sances — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:13:58 +0000

Awesome data sources–thanks!

Comment on Does the Federal Reserve collect data on charitable giving? by Jon

Jon — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:20:36 +0000

Mike, I would guess that it’s the IRS, as they have data on the filings of the 400 richest Americans:

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/04/18/159261/tax-disparity-chart/?mobile=nc

The only data I could find was from the New Tithing Foundation:

http://newtithing.data360.org/

Sadly the article didn’t say why charitable giving by the wealthy so popular besides altruism. There is a large incentive for the wealthy to use charitable giving as a tax write off.

Comment on Do high taxes hurt entrepreneurship? by Jonning keeson

Jonning keeson — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:10:20 +0000

Umm dude… Sweden has something like 20% of its population with an immigrant background in 1-3 generations, and they are also the most entrepreneurial of the Scandinavian family. Finland and norway are considerably more “white” – but when it comes to entrepeneurship they actually fall short or can be considered similar.

Sure, just one example, but I think this taxes hurt entrepreneurs is too simple of an example. If something then it is the ratio of income to corporate tax – which in fact is much lower in scandinavia – not because corporate tax is low, but because income tax is high.

Comment on How to measure media coverage? by Mike Sances

Mike Sances — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:56:20 +0000

Thanks for your comment and the tips!

Comment on How to measure media coverage? by Jon

Jon — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:53:25 +0000

Hmmm. I think y0u’re doing about as good as you can do. I’ve done similar things with mentions in the Congressional Record…it’s not foolproof but it’s the best and quickest way of not just going through every article.

A couple things I learned from a Dan Carpenter article (AJPS 2003) , he details his methods on page 9 of the PDF http://www.jstor.org.proxygw.wrlc.org/stable/pdfplus/3088394.pdf:

The only thing really got from it is The Vanderbilt TV news archive is searchable online.

Another thing you can use is the Policy Agendas archive…which is pretty cool. You can come up with some pretty cool composite measures if you experiment enough.

That’s my two cents.
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Comment on Are women more likely to “sext” than men? by Mike Sances

Mike Sances — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:28:50 +0000

Thanks for your comment! As for standards, you would think so, but there seems to be a lot of variation in practice. Of course, it could just be that the most egregious cases get to us through the news media–they jump on the most topical and “sexy” studies which may happen to be a little lacking in rigor.

Comment on Are women more likely to “sext” than men? by Shubha

Shubha — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:45:22 +0000

Although I believe that it’s likely true that women sext more than men (because I believe it’s likely true that men ask for these pics from women, but women are unlikely to ask for it), as a non-scientist I wonder why these professors are even allowed to do such a “study” which clearly uses a terrible methodology? Don’t they have to adhere to some sort of standards since they’re in academia?