Sino-West Research Group Lab Project #2: Reception of Li-Meng Yan's COVID paper

Projects 2 and 3 We are developing an information source-set robustness and statistical reliability measure or index for applications in political psychology and political philosophy. The specific context for application is Sino-Western relations, anti-China propaganda, and anti-China sentiement. We are designing two naturalistic studies as pilots, to be further developed into larger naturalistic studies, or else quasi-experiments or full experiments. The pilots and a meta-analysis of similar studies will be used to ascertain required sample sizes to achieve statistical power of 80% with meaningful minimum effect sizes (dependent on test statistics chosen.). Abstract 2 (Draft) : The first experiment is intended to test how much knowledge of the upstream information sources and information source sets of Li-Meng Yan’s COVID-19 article, and of the pre-reviews of that article, inform the public’s reception of the article and their subsequent level of anti-China sentiment. The specific statistical models to be deployed are yet to be determined, and will depend upon initial pilots and meta-analyses used to determine minimum sample sizes and appropriate independent, or predictor, variables.