My pride (and my editor) forbid me from starting this story with a knock-knock joke,1 but it does begin with knocking. Door-to-door political canvassing made headlines in April — including here at FiveThirtyEight — when scientists at Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, published a paper claiming they could use the technique to increase support for transgender rights.

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