Announcements

QSS students and faculty investigte the believability of fake news
Date: 10/24/2017
Three papers co-authored by QSS students and steering committee members investigate individuals' likelihood to be skeptical of false news. In thier paper "Media Source, Selective Exposure, and Susceptibility to False Information," Dartmouth students Katherine Clayton, Jase Davis, and Kristen Hinckley, with Professor Yusaku Horiuchi, investigate whether citizens' are more likely to believe false information based on the source of the news piece. In "Counting the Pinocchios: The Effect of Summary Fact-Checking Data on Perceived Accuracy and Favorability of Politicians," students Alexander Agadjanian, Nikita Bakhru, Victoria Chi, Devyn Greenberg, Byrne Hollander, Alexander Hurt, Joseph Kind, Ray Lu, Annie Ma, Daniel Pham, Michael Qian, Mackinley Tan, Clara Wang, Alexander Wasdahl, and Alexandra Woodruff, with Professor Brendan Nyhan, study the effects of summary fact-checking (assessing the accuracy of politicians over time) on the favorability rating of those politicians. And in "Real Solutions for Fake News? Measuring the Effectiveness of General Warnings and Fact-Check Banners in Reducing Belief in False Stories on Social Media," Professor Nyhan worked with students Spencer Blair, Jonathan A. Busam, Katherine Clayton, Samuel Forstner, John Glance, Guy Green, Anna Kawata, Akhila Kovvuri, Jonathan Martin, Evan Morgan, Morgan Sandhu, Rachel Sang, Rachel Scholz-Bright, Austin T. Welch, Andrew G. Wolff, and Amanda Zhou explore the effectiveness of various strategies that could be used by social media platforms to counter fake news. Professors Nyan and Horiuchi also discussed these findings in an Upshot article, "Why the Fact-Checking at Facebook Needs to Be Checked" and a Monkey Cage article "Homegrown 'fake news' is a bigger problem than Russian propaganda. Here's a way to make falsehoods more costly for politicians."
Dartmouth News Highlights QSS Program
Date: 10/24/2017
In a recent article, the Dartmouth News talks about the growing influence of data and the key role Quantitaive Social Science plays in understanding and interpreting the data in fields from politics to sports.
The D interviews QSS Director of Undergraduate Research
Date: 10/18/2017
QSS Director of Undergradate Sean Westwood talks about his interests and research in a Q&A with Grace Stillwell
QSS Faculty member is Dartmouth's "Quote of the Day"
Date: 10/9/2017
In Dartmouth's Vox Daily quote of the day for Monday October 9th, QSS Steering Committe member Brendan Nyhan asks "Can any democratic principle be called into question, or is there a bright line the public won't cross?" This quote is pulled from an October 5th article in Vox, "4 political scientists are tracking whether Trump is damaging American democracy"
Q&A with QSS Professor Yusaku Horiuchi
Date: 10/5/2017
QSS Steering Committee member Yusaku Horiuchi was interviewed by The D on his teaching, research, background and interests. Read the full article here.

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