by Jeffrey Henning | May 24, 2013 | Blog
At AAPOR 2013, I had lunch with ASA Executive Director Ronald L. Wasserstein, a former statistics professor at Washburn University in Topeka, who after the conference told me about the International Year of Statistics. The American Statistical Association (ASA) and...
by Jeffrey Henning | May 19, 2013 | Blog
The TICC (Transparency Initiative Coordinating Committee) is addressing the issue that there is not enough transparency in the social, behavioral and marketing sciences. Openness is fundamental to scientific inquiry, so the transparency initiative’s goal is to...
by Jeffrey Henning | May 19, 2013 | Blog
Yesterday AAPOR released The AAPOR Task Force on Non-Probability Sampling, which was summarized in a session in Boston today at the annual conference. The committee was co-chaired by Reg Baker and J. Michael Brick, who both presented. In 2010, the AAPOR report on...
by Jeffrey Henning | May 18, 2013 | Blog
Scott Keeter of Pew Research Center discussed Pew’s experiments with Google Consumer Surveys at the AAPOR annual conference in Boston today. While Pew Research remains committed to rigorous, probabily-based sampling for all major work, Scott took pains to point...
by Jeffrey Henning | May 17, 2013 | Blog
Jenny Marlar of The Gallup Organization moderated this AAPOR Annual Conference session today on sampling and data quality concerns for online surveys. The Performance of Different Calibration Models in Non-Probability Online Surveys Julia Clark and Neale El-Dash of...
by Jeffrey Henning | Apr 17, 2013 | Blog
Consumers are increasingly multitasking while watching TV, integrating “second screens” into their viewing experience, argues the global management consultancy Accenture, based on results of a new survey. Multitasking in front of the TV used to be about reading. Now...
