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  • Professor Johnson publishes study on public attitudes towards the use of Genetic Risk Scores

    February 26, 2021
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    Genetic risk scores are increasingly being used in health care settings, but scholars, policy makers, and the general public are increasingly concerned that genetic information could be used in other non-medical settings to make decisions--such as insurance providers, schools, or financial institutions. In a new study, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science Rebecca Johnson and colleagues examined public attitudes towards the use of genetic information in non-medical settings.

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  • Professor Nyhan publishes report on exposure to online political extremism

    February 15, 2021
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    The January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol exposed what has been obvious to scholars for years: political extremism and white supremacist ideologies are unsettlingly common in the United States. Critics argue that online platforms such as YouTube play an important role in exposure to extremist ideas, but there has been little research on who accesses this content or how often they do so. In a recent report, Professor Nyhan and colleagues address this question and examine exposure to political extremist content on Youtube.

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  • QSS Faculty Publish Paper on Voting By Mail

    October 12, 2020

    Former Dartmouth QSS Postdoc David Cottrell (now an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia) and QSS faculty member Michael Herron recently published a working paper.

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