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Experience-oriented dispositions are the most consistently cosmopolitan, while tradition-seeking generally aligns with national orientation and status-seeking does not consistently drive cosmopolitanism.

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Experience-oriented dispositions are the most consistently cosmopolitan, while tradition-seeking generally aligns with national orientation and status-seeking does not consistently drive cosmopolitanism.

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  • Does the conclusion stay within the population P from which S was drawn, or does it overreach (different country, different time period, different platform)?Answer under review
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    The paper bases its inference on separate country OLS regressions and compares conditional associations across those countries. Its language of consistency and general tendency is thus tied to the country-specific comparative results, not to a claim of an identical effect in every setting. Paper basis — This is a model-based comparative inference: unstandardized marginal coefficients from full-model country OLS regressions, with the other measured dispositions, class indicators, migration, and controls held constant, are treated as evidence of the independent associations of each factor with global self-identification. Cross-country variation in those coefficients licenses rejecting a universal c (from unit-6#w; no verbatim anchor). Reconstructed from Christian Schneickert & Sören Carlson (2026); machine-drafted from the paper, filed for review.

  • Does the operational measure of F in the sample actually capture F as it is meant in the population-level claim?Open
  • Is the sample actually representative of the target population on the dimensions that matter for F (demographics, behavior, time period, platform mix)?Open
  • Is the sample large enough to support the precision (margin m) being claimed?Open
  • Was the sample drawn or recruited in a way that systematically biases the proportion of F (e.g., volunteer bias, opt-in panels, attrition)?Open

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