Patrick Präg

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I'm a sociologist at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST). https://patrickpraeg.com
Join us this year for our seminars with Philippe Coulangeon (TODAY!), Bernie Hogan, Elena Pavan, Christof Brandner, and Alexi Gugushvili!

NEW PREPRINT by CREST Sociology's @scoavoux, @eollion, and @ppraeg on @SocArXivBot: "Machine Bias. Generative Large Language Models Have a Worldview of Their Own"

LINK: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/r2pnb

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And we're BACK! Come and join us in person or on the internet for the CREST Sociology seminar 2024! All-star line-up!
CREST is hiring! Assistant or associate professor, any area of sociology, hmu if you want all the details. https://crest.science/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CREST_Assistant_Position_Sociology.pdf
Join us! Open position for a quantitative sociology professor (assistant or associate) at ENSAE-Crest in Paris. Open to all specialties. #sociology #job https://crest.science/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CREST_Assistant_Position_Sociology.pdf
For once a little self promotion. The paper together with @jascha_draeger and @nrmllr on flexible nonlinear effects modelling with the application of wealth has finally been published https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10-19-534/ #sociology @sociology #wealth #GeneralizedAdditiveModels
RT @eollion
Do you want to do a Ph.D. in Paris, in a dynamic research team (for instance with my colleague @ppraeg)? There is still time to apply, see below: https://twitter.com/CrestSociology/status/1633758803345768448
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How to select your control variables?

https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac078

Start your week well and read this paper just published on ESR.

And tell your PhD students to read it...

Control variable selection in applied quantitative sociology: a critical review

Abstract. A review of all research papers published in the European Sociological Review in 2016 and 2017 (N = 118) shows that only a minority of papers clearly

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