Jacob Long

@jacob-long.com

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Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of South Carolina | PhD from Ohio State | political communication, public opinion, some other stuff You might know me from my jtools, interactions, and panelr #rstats packages https://jacob-long.com

Roman Anthony team border variation baseball card
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Screen shot from macOS Preview app, showing "Page 5 of 112"
Screenshot of study abstract
Screenshot of Google Gemini claiming the Pixel 10 series of phones is unreleased
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Segra Park in daytime
funny owl
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6 cedar waxwings in a tree
Screenshot from ICA conference website showing key dates: 15 January — ICA headquarters releases acceptances & conference registration opens. 31 January — Registration deadline for being in the "early access" group for the hotel booking link
A horrifying and bald male cardinal on a fence
Screenshot from Steam year in review stating that 47% of game time was spent with mouse and keyboard and 53% with controller
R analysis output showing a p value of .11
R data analysis output showing a z value of 1.98 and p value of .0482
Screenshot of R data analysis output showing a p value of .048
Screenshot of these two citations: Gelman, A., & Stern, H. (2006). The difference between “significant” and “not significant” is not itself statistically significant. The American Statistician, 60(4), 328–331. https://doi.org/10.1198/000313006X152649 Montgomery, J. M., Nyhan, B., & Torres, M. (2018). How conditioning on posttreatment variables can ruin your experiment and what to do about it. American Journal of Political Science, 62(3), 760–775. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12357
Headline screen grab that reads "teen boy, 32-year-old man"
Jacob standing on the pitcher's mound in a 2011 college baseball game
Screenshot of R code in which the packages "jtools," "modelsummary," and "panelr" are loaded. The first and third of those are created by the author of the post.
A chart showing the distribution of US male heights, both as measured and as self-reported. Self-reported heights are slightly higher on average, mostly because there are fewer men reporting heights in the 5-foot-8 through 5-foot-11 range and an excess of them in the 6-foot-0 through 6-foot-2 range
Washington Post headline that reads, "It’s becoming easier to get into many colleges; Despite common perception, acceptance rates are going up."
Screenshot from Web of Science showing two of Jacob's R packages, one with 322 citations and the other with 238 citations.
a juvenile barred owl as seen through an interior window as it sits perched outdoors, feet obscured by the window frame
Screenshot of list of "most popular contemporary baseball players" which is topped by Minnesota Twins 1B Carlos Santana, followed by Mookie Betts, Miguel Cabrera, and Mike Trout