Gaurav Sood - Research & Software

LATEST
1. Review of "Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment"
  With Andrew Gelman. Chance. 2024.
2. Social Proof is in the Pudding: The (Non)-Impact of Social Proof on Software Downloads
  With Lucas Shen.
  🗃 Replication Materials
3. Extreme Recall: Which Politicians Come to Mind?
  With Daniel Weitzel. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 2024.
  🗃 Replication Materials
4. A Benchmark For Benchmarks
5. 📦 naamkaran: a generative model for names
  With Rajashekar Chintalapati.
6. 📦 parsernaam: ML-assisted name parser
  With Rajashekar Chintalapati.
DEI
1. Predicting Race and Ethnicity From Sequence of Characters in a Name
  With Rajashekar Chintalapati and Suriyan Laohaprapanon. arXiv.org
  RELATED: 📦 Python Package for implementing the method.
  PRESS: InfoQ | AnacondaCON presentation (Video)
2. Sound Names: Classify Names Based on Sequence of Sounds
3. Graphic Names: Classify Names Using Google Image Search and Clarifai
4. 📦 Naampy: Infer Sociodemographic Characteristics from Indian Names
  With Rajashekar Chintalapati and Suriyan Laohaprapanon.
5. 📦 Pranaam: Predict Religion From Name
  With Rajashekar Chintalapati.
6. What and Who is on Network Television?
7. The Face of Crime in Prime Time: Evidence from Law and Order
  With Daniel Trielli.
  PRESS: The Washington Post
8. Public Employees: Money and Diversity
9. Son Bias in the US: Evidence from Business Names
  With Walter Guillioli
10. The Older Half: Spousal Age Gap in India
  With Suriyan Laohaprapanon
11. Which Women Are Missing? Adult Sex Ratio By Last Name
  With Suriyan Laohaprapanon
12. Working Women on Indian TV
  With Asha Sood
13. Missing Women on the Streets
14. Epic Children: Sex Ratio of Children of Key Characters in Epics
15. Missing Daughters of Indian Politicians
ONLINE SAFETY
1. Pwned: How Often Are Americans' Online Accounts Breached?
  With Ken Cor. ACM Web Science Conference, 2019
  RELATED: Bob Rudis Analyzes Exposure by Breach
2. 📦 Piedomains: Predict the Kind of Content Hosted by a Domain Based on Domain Name and Content
  With Rajashekar Chintalapati.
  RELATED: Domain Knowledge: Predicting the Kind of Content Hosted by a Domain.
  With Suriyan Laohaprapanon. Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), 2020.
3. Pass-Fail: Using a Password Generator to Improve Password Strength
  With Rajashekar Chintalapati
  PRESS: Bob Rudis' Daily Drop
4. (O)wned Politicians: How Many Politician Accounts are Breached?
5. Bad Domains: Exposure to Malicious Content Online.
  With Lucas Shen.
6. Have I Been Pwned? Yes.
7. 📦 Know Your IP
  With Suriyan Laohaprapanon
8. 📦 virustotal: R Client for the VirusTotal Public API 2.0
PARTISAN AFFECT
1. Inter-group Prejudice
2. Affect, Not Ideology: A Social Identity Perspective on Polarization
  With Shanto Iyengar and Yphtach Lelkes. Public Opinion Quarterly. 76(3), 405–431, 2012.
  🗃 Replication Materials
  RELATED: Sort of Sorted But Definitely Cold, The Order of Feelings, Affectively Polarized?, Party Time
  PRESS: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, Vox, etc.
3. The Parties in our Heads: Misperceptions About Party Composition and Their Consequences
  With Doug Ahler. The Journal of Politics. 80(3), 964–981, 2018.
  🗃 Replication Materials
  PRESS: FiveThirtyEight, Vox, The Washington Post, The Washington Post (2), Christian Science Monitor, The Hill, PBS (Twin Cities)
  RELATED: The Partisans in our Heads | Data and Scripts
4. Typecast: A Routine Mental Shortcut Causes Party Stereotyping
  With Doug Ahler. Political Behavior. 2022.
  🗃 Replication Materials | Appendix
  PRESS: Heterodox Academy
5. All in the Eye of the Beholder: Partisan Affect and Ideological Accountability
  With Shanto Iyengar.
  In The Feeling, Thinking Citizen: Essays in Honor of Milton Lodge. 2018.
  🗃 Replication Materials
  RELATED: Still Close: Perceived Ideological Distance to Own and Main Opposing Party, 2012 Blog Post
  PRESS: The New York Times
6. Coming to Dislike Your Opponents: The Polarizing Impact of Political Campaigns
  With Shanto Iyengar.
  PRESS: New York Times
7. Partisan Vision? Partisan Bias in Simple Visual Evaluations
  With Carrie Roush and Alex Theodoridis.
8. Extreme Recall: Which Politicians Come to Mind?
9. The Hostile Audience: The Effect of Access to Broadband Internet on Partisan Affect
  With Yphtach Lelkes and Shanto Iyengar. American Journal of Political Science. 61(1): 5–20, 2017.
  🗃 Replication Materials
  PRESS: The Guardian
NEWS
1. Not News: Provision of Apolitical News in the British News Media
  With Suriyan Laohaprapanon.
2. 📦 Notnews: Predict the Type of News Based on Story Text and URL
  With Suriyan Laohaprapanon.
3. Unreadable News: How Readable is American News?
  With Lucas Shen.
4. Follow Your Ideology: A Measure of Ideological Location of Media Sources
  With Pablo Barberá.
5. The Supply of Media Slant Across Outlets and Demand for Slant Within Outlets: Evidence from US Presidential Campaign News
  With Marcel Garz, Daniel Stone, and Justin Wallace. European Journal of Political Economy.
  🗃 Replication Materials
6. Don't Expose Yourself: Discretionary Exposure to Political Information
  With Yphtach Lelkes. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. 2018.
  🗃 Replication Materials
  RELATED: Categorizing the Content of Domains, Measuring Selective Exposure, The Fairest of All
7. The Good NYT: Provision of Apolitical News in the New York Times
8. Hard News: The Softening of Network Television News
  With Daniel Weitzel.
9. Partisan Imbalance in Politifact?
LEARNING, KNOWLEDGE, AND MISINFORMATION
1. You Cannot be Serious: The Impact of Accuracy Incentives on Partisan Bias
  With Markus Prior and Kabir Khanna. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 10(4), 489–518, 2015.
  🗃 Online Appendix; Replication Materials
  PRESS: Washington Monthly, Pacific Standard, The New York Times
  RELATED: Partisan Gaps in Retrospection are Highly Variable; Blog Post
2. Motivated Responding in Studies of Factual Learning
  With Kabir Khanna. Political Behavior. 40(1): 79–101, 2018.
  🗃 Replication Materials
  RELATED: Blog Summarizing the Paper, The Innumerate American
3. A Gap in Our Understanding? Reconsidering the Evidence for Partisan Knowledge Gaps
  With Carrie Roush. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 18(1), 2023.
  🗃 Replication Materials
  RELATED: An Unclear Gap: How Vague Response Options Produce Partisan Knowledge Gaps
  PRESS: Not Another Politics Podcast (U. Chicago)
4. The Waters of Casablanca: On Political Misinformation
  With Robert Luskin.
5. Misinformation About Misinformation: Of Headlines and Survey Design
  With Robert Luskin, Yul Min Park, and Joshua Blank.
  🗃 Replication Materials
6. Misinformed About the Affordable Care Act? Leveraging Certainty to Assess the Prevalence of Misinformation
  With Josh Pasek and Jon Krosnick. Journal of Communication. 65(4): 660–673, 2015
  🗃 Supporting Information | Replication Materials
7. Americans' Attitudes Toward The Affordable Care Act: Would Better Public Understanding Increase or Decrease Favorability?
  With Wendy Gross, Tobias Stark, Jon Krosnick, Josh Pasek, Trevor Thompson, Jennifer Agiesta, and Dennis Junius.
  PRESS: Forbes, Pacific Standard, The Dish, among other outlets.
8. Americans' Attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act: What Role Do Beliefs Play?
  With Gabriel Miao Li, Josh Pasek, Jon Krosnick, Tobias H. Stark, Jennifer Agiesta, Trevor Tompson, and Wendy Gross. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 2022.
9. Guessing and Forgetting: A Latent Class Model for Measuring Learning
  With Ken Cor. Political Analysis. 24(2): 226–242, 2016.
  🗃 Replication Materials
  REVIEW: '... a real contribution to the literature.' — Ed Haertel
  RELATED: 📦 R Package for implementing the method.
10. Measuring Learning in Informative Processes
  With Robert Luskin and Ariel Helfer.
11. A Measurement Gap? Effect of the Survey Instrument and Scoring on the Partisan Knowledge Gap
  With Lucas Shen and Daniel Weitzel. Public Opinion Quarterly. 2024.
12. An Unclear Gap: How Vague Response Options Produce Partisan Knowledge Gaps
  With Carrie Roush.
13. Measuring Perceptions of Numerical Strength of Salient and Stereotypical Groups
  With Doug Ahler. Misinformation and Mass Audiences. 2018. University of Texas Press.
  🗃 Appendix
DELIBERATION
1. What Would Dahl Say? An Appraisal of the Democratic Credentials of the Deliberative Polls and Other Mini-publics
  With Ian O'Flynn. Deliberative Mini-Publics. 41–58, 2014. ECPR Press.
2. How Can You Think That?: Deliberation and the Learning of Opposing Arguments
  🗃 Replication Materials
3. Deliberative Distortions? Homogenization, Polarization, and Domination in Small Group Deliberations
  With Robert Luskin, Kyu Hahn, and James Fishkin. The British Journal of Political Science. 52(3), 1205–1225, 2022.
  🗃 Replication Materials
4. What Future for Kirkuk?
  With Ian O'Flynn, Jalal Mistaffa, and Nahwi Saeed. Democratization. 26(7), 1299–1317, 2019.
  🗃 Replication Materials | Supporting Information
META SCIENCE
1. By the Numbers: Toward More Precise Numerical Summaries of Results
  With Andrew Guess. The Political Methodologist. 24(1): 2016
2. Propagation of Error: Approving Citations to Problematic Research
  With Ken Cor.
  RELATED: Web application for highligting citations to retracted articles in bibliographies.
3. Significant Error: Citations to Research With Publicized Statistical Errors
  With Ken Cor.
4. The Review: Production and Consumption of APSR Articles
5. Highlight Citations to Retracted Articles
6. AutoSum: Summarize Publications Automatically and Discover Miscitations
7. superdf: Save Metadata with the Data in R and Python DataFrames
8. Softverse: Auto-compute Citations to Software From Replication Files
  website: softwarecite.com
9. Not to Code: Evidence From Static Code Analysis of Replication Scripts
DATA COLLECTION
1. The Micro-Task Market for "Lemons": Collecting Data on Amazon's Mechanical Turk
  With Doug Ahler and Carrie Roush. Political Science Research and Methods, 2021.
  🗃 Replication Materials
2. Optimal Data Collection When Strata and Strata Variances Are Known
  With Ken Cor.
3. Hidden Racial Prejudice? Impact of Social Desirability Pressures on Endorsement of Racial Stereotypes
  With Jon Krosnick, Tobias Stark, and Floor van Maaren. Sociological Methods and Research.51(2), 605–631, 2019.
  🗃 Replication and Supplementary Materials
4. 📦 Geo-sampling: Sampling Randomly From the Streets
  With Suriyan Laohaprapanon.
5. 📦 Allocator: Optimally Assigning (Suggesting) Data Collection Locations, Creating Itineraries
  With Suriyan Laohaprapanon.
PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS
1. Street Sense: Learning from Google Street View
  With Suriyan Laohaprapanon and Kimberly Ortleb. arXiv.org
2. Get in Line: Waiting Times at the DMV
  With Noah Finberg.
CRICKET
1. Elo Ratings of International Cricket Teams By Format
  With Derek Willis.
  PRESS: The Hindu
2. Fairly Random: The Effect of Winning the Toss on Winning the Match
  With Apoorva Lal, Derek Willis, Gaurav Sood, and Avidit Acharya. Journal of Sports Analytics. 2023.
  RELATED: Fairly Random: Impact of Winning the Toss on the Probability of Winning
  With Derek Willis. | arXiv.org
  PRESS: ESPN: How much does the toss really matter?
  RELATED: ESPN: Why replacing the toss with an auction is the fair thing to do
OTHER
1. Revisiting a Natural Experiment: Do Legislators With Daughters Vote More Liberally on Women's Issues?
  With Don Green, Oliver Hyman-Metzger, and Michelle Zee. Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics. 2023.
  🗃 Replication Materials | Supporting Information
  PRESS: Phys.org
2. The Effect of Gender Quotas on Some Qualities of Elites
3. Holier Than Thou? No Large Partisan Gap in Consumption of Pornography Online
  With Lucas Shen. Journal of Quantitative Description. 2024.
4. Mixed Signals: Movie Quality Assessments Across Platforms
5. 📦 instate: predict spoken language from last name
  With Rajashekar Chintalapati and Atul Dhingra.
  RELATED: Instate: Predict the State of Residence from Last Name. With Atul Dhingra.
6. 📦 incline: Estimate Trend at a Particular Point in Time in a Noisy Time Series
7. 📦 Lost Years: Expected Number of Years Lost
  With Suriyan Laohaprapanon.
8. Is an Uncertain Prospect Less Preferred Than Its Worst Possible Outcome? New Evidence on the Uncertainty Effect
  With Doug Ahler.
9. Problem Solving
10. 📦 repaper: convert photo of a form to a web based form or an editable pdf form
  With Bhanu Teja.
11. Scaling ML Products at Startups: A Practioner's Guide
  With Atul Dhingra.
12. 📦 indicate: transliterate indic languages to english
  With Rajashekar Chintalapati.



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