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What Abraham Lincoln Would’ve Said About Ranker Comics If He Were Still Alive...
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog by Ranky (said in the voice of Abraham Lincoln) Four score and seven days ago, our Ranker fathers brought forth on this continent Ranker Comics, a new...
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Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog Something pretty cool happened last week here at Ranker, and it had nothing to do with the season premiere of the “Big Bang Theory”, which we’re also...
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Send us Your Academic Papers on Civil Intergroup Relations
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Civil Politics exists to help educate the public on evidence based methods to improve inter-group relations, especially those intractable conflicts...
View ArticleCharacteristics of People who are less Afraid of Ebola
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog Ebola is everywhere in the news these days, even as Ebola trails other causes of death by wide margins. Clearly the risks are great, so some amount of...
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Ranker Predicts Spurs to beat Cavaliers for 2015 NBA Championship
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog The NBA Season starts tonight and building on the proven success of our World Cup and movie box office predictions, as well as the preliminary success of...
View ArticleBlue State Republicans as a path towards compromise
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Last night, the tossup senate races broke sharply toward the Republican party, which Republicans winning in two states where President Obama won in...
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The Clear Split Between AMD and Intel CPU Fans
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog Recently, Tom’s Hardware used the Ranker widget to poll for their Reader’s Choice awards. Among the topics they polled was the best CPUs and while I...
View ArticleA2Ethics Mixes Beer with Ethics for Non-Partisan Fun and Civil Debate
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog CivilPolitics’ mission is to educate the public on evidence-based methods for improving inter-group dialogue, with evidence defined broadly to include...
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The Opinion Graph Connections between 24, George W. Bush, Jack Bauer, and...
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog As someone whose roots are in political psychology, I’m always interested in seeing how the Ranker dataset shows how our values are reflected in our...
View ArticleCharacteristics of people who are not annoyed by Bill O’Reilly
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog On today’s The O’Reilly Factor (video below), Bill O’Reilly lamented the fact that he was only #10 on Ranker’s Most Annoying TV Hosts list and decided...
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Tracking Votes to Measure Changing Opinions
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog A key part of any Ranker list are the votes are associated with each item, counting how often a user has given that item the “thumbs up” or “thumbs...
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Mashable mashes up Ranker Data on the Patriots vs. Seahawks
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog Did you know that Patriots fans are far more likely to be fans of Pulp Fiction and The Departed on our Best Movies of All Time list? Ranker knows...
View ArticleMaking Politics Less Personal
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Recently, Thomas Edsall wrote an interesting essay in the New York Times covering work done by various academics, including Jonathan Haidt, who is one...
View ArticleHack4Congress Identifies Tech Ideas to improve Cooperation
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog While there is a lot of research on many variables that increase inter-group civility, a large number of them can be grouped under the general...
View ArticleCivilPolitics Annual Report for 2014
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog The below text is from our annual report produced for 2013-14. The report is also available via PDF. If you are interested in contributing to Civil...
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Two Evidence-Based Recommendations for Civil Disagreement
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Navigating the scientific literature can be difficult as there is so much research being produced these days and so much controversy as to what...
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New Research Supports Age Old Ideas for Civility
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog I recently attended the 2015 meeting for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, which is the main gathering for academic social...
View ArticleExtremists are more likely to believe in Conspiracies
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog One of the core recommendations of Civil Politics is to emphasize cooperation over competition, which often involves getting the silent majority in...
View ArticleSuperordinate Goals unite Koch Industries and the Center for American Progress
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog The best evidence-based recommendations for improving inter-group relations arise when academic research and real-world case studies echo each other....
View ArticleResearch suggests that Belief that Groups Can Change facilititates...
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Recently, I was forwarded a research article entitled “Belief in the Malleability of Groups Strengthens the Tenuous Link Between a Collective Apology...
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