Anthony Wells

@anthonyjwells · Dartford · joined 02 Feb 2009

Head of European Political and Social Research at YouGov UK. Used to write stuff at UKPollingReport. Hates agree/disagree statements.

18 015Followers

1 240Following

16 935Posts total

51.5KViews on collected posts

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Anthony Wells@anthonyjwells2 Jan 2025

If you are (or know) a student interested in politics, elections, public opinion & quant methods and are looking for a sandwich placement for 2025-2026, we're currently recruiting for our student placement in the YouGov political team 🧵 1.5K views · 0 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Anthony Wells@anthonyjwells15 Oct 2024

This is a sad, disappointing decision. One of the last few solid bastions of the long form serious interview. 1.6K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Anthony Wells@anthonyjwells5 Jul 2024

We're used to MRP models now... but imagine we didn't have them. Everyone would have been speculating about a hung Parliament as the polls narrowed based on uniform swing calculators... and then the exit poll would have been BANG! 43.7K views · 150 likes · 35 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Anthony Wells@anthonyjwells4 Jul 2024

Other 23? Wonder who that is 4.6K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Anthony Wells@anthonyjwells23 Sep 2019

@robertrea @aedwardslevy More than anything, I think pollsters have a duty to be public explainers of what polls can and *cannot* do, how to interpret them sensibly, how to do polling well. We should never let ourselves just amplify the simplified, sensationist findings that som 0 views · 77 likes · 21 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

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43.7K5 Jul

1.6K15 Oct

1.5K2 Jan

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.28%4 Jul

0.44%5 Jul

0.12%15 Oct

0.20%2 Jan

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes68.8%154 in total

Reposts17.0%38 in total

Replies8.0%18 in total

Quotes0.9%2 in total

Bookmarks5.4%12 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

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