About us

We are second- and third-year Bachelor’s students in Political Science at the University of Stavanger. This project was carried out as a voluntary project under the supervision of Associate Professor Carlo Knotz.

Project Members

Aud Statle Nævdal

3rd year Bachelor student (at the time of the project).

Key contributions:

  • Contributed the idea of investigating opinion formation.

  • Contributed to the development and refinement of survey questions.

  • Participated in the data collection process.

  • Contributed to the authoring of the analysis and results section.

Awaatef Hassan

2nd year Bachelor student (at the time of the project).

Key contributions:

  • Contributed to the development and refinement of survey questions.

  • Participated in the data collection process.

  • Contributed to the authoring of the theoretical framework.

Marie Langeland

3rd year Bachelor student (at the time of the project).

Key contributions:

  • Developed the responsive landing page and implemented the randomization function for assigning respondents to the two survey versions.

  • Participated in the data collection process.

  • Created, managed, and contributed to the development and refinement of the surveys and survey questions.

  • Managed data cleaning, including filtering and recoding variables for analysis.

  • Performed statistical analysis and created data visualizations in R.

  • Built and managed the Quarto website for the project.

  • Authored the home page.

  • Authored the methodology and experimental design section.

  • Contributed to the authoring of the analysis and results section.

Norman Sunde

2nd year Bachelor student (at the time of the project).

Key contributions:

  • Contributed to the development and refinement of survey questions.

  • Participated in the data collection process.

  • Authored the documentation of the data collection process.

William Thengs Egeli

3rd year Bachelor student (at the time of the project).

Key contributions:

  • Contributed to the development and refinement of survey questions.

  • Participated in the data collection process.

  • Contributed to the authoring of the theoretical framework.

Zainab Ali

2nd year Bachelor student (at the time of the project).

Key contributions:

  • Contributed to the development and refinement of survey questions.

  • Participated in the data collection process.

  • Contributed to the authoring of the theoretical framework.