{"id":333,"date":"2011-05-31T17:52:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.dds.nl\/?p=333"},"modified":"2011-05-31T17:52:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T00:52:49","slug":"assorted-links-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/assorted-links-may-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Assorted links, May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Orgtheory.net has a really neat\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/orgtheory.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/31\/the-editors-speak-what-makes-a-good-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">compilation of advice <\/a>by editors of various top journals on what constitutes a good review in the peer-review process. Very useful for beginning reviewers, as this is one of those things no one ever tells you how to do (with lots of crappy reviews as a result).<\/li>\n<li>The latest issue of Sociological Methods and Research includes two articles on problems associated with identifying influence effects in social networks, arguably one of the raisons d&#8217;\u00eatre of social network analysis. In the first article, Cosma Shlalizi and Andrew Thomas <a href=\"http:\/\/smr.sagepub.com\/content\/40\/2\/211.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">argue that identifying influence- or contagion effects is almost always problematic<\/a>, because latent homophily can lead to spurious influence effects (and vice versa). They claim that their results may &#8220;wreck the hopes on which many observational studies of social networks are rested,&#8221;\u00a0 and they may have a point. In the second study, Tyler VanderWeele, using sensitivity analysis, <a href=\"http:\/\/smr.sagepub.com\/content\/40\/2\/240.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">argues that it is maybe not that bad<\/a>. I guess there will be quite some discussion about this, but at the very least, it highlights the usefulness of designing experimental studies in which identification is not an issue.<\/li>\n<li>Games and Economic Behavior has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0899825610001442\" target=\"_blank\">an article looking at social distance in Second Life<\/a>. It is interesting to see this sociological concept <em>and<\/em> empirical research in an online environment in this hardcore micro-economics journal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orgtheory.net has a really neat\u00a0compilation of advice by editors of various top journals on what constitutes a good review in the peer-review process. Very useful for beginning reviewers, as this is one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}