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Exhibit 698

Simulating representation: The devil's in the detail

Exhibit 698 ยท Peer-reviewed research note

Simulating representation: The devil's in the detail

Gilens's published response to Bashir 2015 (Research & Politics, April 2016). Crossref lists Gilens as sole author, OpenAlex describes it as a response to Omar Bashir's 2015 paper, and Elkjaer and Klitgaard 2024 describe it as arguing that Bashir's critique is misplaced. Its arguments are described here only through that review.

Source
Martin Gilens, Research & Politics 3(2), April 2016
Date
April 2016
Grade
Peer-reviewed
Document
https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168016654720
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Finding POL-2.3
Peer-reviewed Bashir reproduced the Gilens-Page estimates and simulated the estimator. With the 50th and 90th percentile preferences correlated at .78, a true median-income coefficient of about 0.4 was estimated as essentially zero in over 20 percent of trials.