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2025 Categorizing topics versus inferring attitudes: a theory and method for analyzing open-ended survey responses. William R. Hobbs · Political Analysis 11 2025 How polarized are online conversations about children?. William R. Hobbs · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 1 2025 Measuring Distances in High Dimensional Spaces Why Average Group Vector Comparisons Exhibit Bias, And What to Do About it William R. Hobbs · Political Analysis 7 2025 The effects and non-effects of social sanctions from user jury-based content moderation decisions on Weibo. William R. Hobbs · CHI ’25 8 2024 From Anti-Muslim to Anti-Jewish: Target Substitution on Fringe Social Media Platforms and the Persistence of Online and Offline Hate. William R. Hobbs · Political Behavior 25 2023 Asymmetric Flooding in Foreign Election Interference on Social Media. William R. Hobbs · Political Science Research and Methods — 2023 For ’Living Well’, Behaviors and Circumstances Matter Just as Much as Psychological Traits. William R. Hobbs · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 13 2023 Gathering, Evaluating, and Aggregating Social Scientific Models. William R. Hobbs · SSRN Electronic Journal 2 2023 The Same Extremists Target Both Muslims and Jews. William R. Hobbs · Scientific American — 2022 Asymmetric flooding as a tool for foreign influence on social media William R. Hobbs · Political Science Research and Methods · Scholar only 29 2022 COVID-19 Increased Censorship Circumvention and Access to Sensitive Topics in China. William R. Hobbs · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 2022 Online Engagement with 2020 Election Misinformation and Turnout in the 2021 Georgia Runoff Election. William R. Hobbs · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 92 2021 Data Acquisition, Sampling, and Data Preparation Considerations for Quantitative Social Science Research Using Social Media Data. William R. Hobbs · PsyArXiv. March 16 2021 Offsetting Policy Feedback Effects: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act William R. Hobbs · The Journal of Politics 18 2021 Using Administrative Records and Survey Data to Construct Samples of Tweeters and Tweets. William R. Hobbs · Public Opinion Quarterly 57 2021 USING ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS AND SURVEY DATA TO CONSTRUCT SAMPLES OF TWEETERS AND TWEETS (vol 85, pg 323, 2021) William R. Hobbs · PUBLIC OPINION QUARTERLY · Scholar only — 2020 The State of the Nation: A 50-State COVID-19 Survey Report #18: COVID-19 Fake News on Twitter. William R. Hobbs — 2019 Effects of Divisive Political Campaigns on the Day-to-Day Segregation of Arab and Muslim Americans. William R. Hobbs · American Political Science Review 119 2019 Major Life Events and the Age - Partisan Stability Association. William R. Hobbs · Political Behavior 34 2019 Text Scaling for Open-Ended Survey Responses and Social Media Posts William R. Hobbs · Scholar only 16 2018 How Sudden Censorship Can Increase Access to Information. William R. Hobbs · American Political Science Review 325 2017 Combating Fake News: An Agenda for Research and Action. William R. Hobbs 383 2017 Connective Recovery in Social Networks After the Death of a Friend. William R. Hobbs · Nature Human Behaviour 64 2017 ConStance: Modeling Annotation Contexts to Improve Stance Classification. William R. Hobbs · Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 55 2017 Voters of the Year: 19 Voters Who Were Unintentional Election Poll Sensors on Twitter. William R. Hobbs · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 8 2016 Online Social Integration is Associated with Reduced Mortality Risk. William R. Hobbs · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 2015 Presidential Effort and International Outcomes: evidence for an executive bottleneck. William R. Hobbs · The Journal of Politics 27 2014 Prediction of Mortality Using On-Line, Self-Reported Health Data: empirical test of the RealAge score. William R. Hobbs · PLoS ONE 13 2014 Widowhood Effects in Voter Participation. William R. Hobbs · American Journal of Political Science 91 2013 Embedded Interests and the Managerial Local State: the political economy of methanol fuel-switching in China. William R. Hobbs · Journal of Contemporary China 44 2012 Local Energy Efficiency Policy Implementation in China: bridging the gap between national priorities and local interests. William R. Hobbs · The China Quarterly 286

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2025 · article · journal

Categorizing topics versus inferring attitudes: a theory and method for analyzing open-ended survey responses.

Political Analysis · William R. Hobbs

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11Scholar citations

4OpenAlex citations

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“Categorizing topics versus inferring attitudes: a theory and method for analyzing open-endedsurvey responses.”William Hobbs and Jon Green. 2025.Political Analysis. 33(3): 231-251.

Peer reviewed: yes
First author: Hobbs
Co-authors: William Hobbs; Jon Green
Subfield: methodology
Method: quantitative
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

DOI: 10.1017/pan.2024.23
OpenAlex: W4406810381

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