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PSAI 2017: ‘Reliability in political science data: a cautionary tale’

This post is based on the author’s paper to PSAI Annual Conference 2017, titled ‘Reliable text-analysis coding of emotive campaign rhetoric in referendums’, due to be presented Sunday 15 October.

October 12, 2017 in dataset, PSAI 2017.

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