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Betsy Sinclair

Researcher at Washington University in St. Louis

Publications -  37
Citations -  4046

Betsy Sinclair is an academic researcher from Washington University in St. Louis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Voting behavior. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 35 publications receiving 3226 citations. Previous affiliations of Betsy Sinclair include California Institute of Technology & University of Chicago.

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Redefine statistical significance

Daniel J. Benjamin, +76 more
TL;DR: The default P-value threshold for statistical significance is proposed to be changed from 0.05 to 0.005 for claims of new discoveries in order to reduce uncertainty in the number of discoveries.
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Redefine Statistical Significance

TL;DR: This article proposed to change the default P-value threshold for statistical significance for claims of new discoveries from 0.05 to 0.005, which is the threshold used in this paper.
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The Social Citizen: Peer Networks and Political Behavior

TL;DR: For example, the authors showed that when members of a social network express a particular political opinion or belief, others notice and conform, particularly if their conformity is likely to be highly visible.
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Detecting Spillover Effects: Design and Analysis of Multilevel Experiments

TL;DR: In this article, a multilevel experimental design was proposed to evaluate the influence of interpersonal communication in a large-scale voter-mobilization experiment conducted in Chicago during a special election in 2009.
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Causality in Political Networks

TL;DR: In this paper, five independent essays address practical problems in making causal inferences from studies of political networks, including egocentric studies of national probability samples, sociocentric study of political communities, measurement error in elite surveys, field experiments on networks, and triangulating on causal processes.