A New York Times reporter Gardner Harris describes an issue that might jar some of our perceptions about access to potable water: Almost no place on Earth gets more rain…

…communicate their views. It is very hard to tell this from explanation 2. 4) Changes in perceived opinion lag changes in actual opinion. A guess on public views on gay…

…Wow. Frankly I usually find polling on public perceptions of fact more interesting than polling on public opinion. But the results which really shocked me were majority support for reducing…

…in the Fox News sense). Rasmussen is different. I think their success in pulling perceptions towards Republicans in spite of their demonstrated statistical bias (3.8% in 2010) is the cause…

…have here is a huge gap between perceptions which matter for politics and reality which matters for decent policy. Welfare reform is much loved both by most of the general…

…is assessed by measuring the change in asset prices at the moment news of the change becomes publicly available. By fundamental value I mean the hold to maturity value of…

…policymakers’ interest in redistributing income through the tax code, for example. Varying perceptions about a trade-off between economic growth and income equality appear to underlie longstanding congressional deliberations about such…

Andrew Gelman points to our confusions regarding merit in our social perceptions of winners and losers. I might make a list of naughty and nice sayings for another post. Tyler…

…initiatives to change public perceptions, improve employability, and reduce discrimination against older workers. [emphasis mine] It’s nice to see McKinsey endorsing Medicare For All. *As a general rule, the Econ-first…

…and tax rates were, in fact, cut tremendously in the 1980s. Growth rates subsequently fell. However, the 1980s brought with it something else, another political change in public perceptions. The…