Dr. Carina Cornesse @CarinaCornesse@qoto.org

Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) and Terence Tao collaborate in a two-part series on how humanity measured (and continues to measure) our universe. Both parts are out now and they are absolutely stunning. It also shows the absurd power of even just school level math (e.g., basic trigonometry).

Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdOXS_9_P4U

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFMaT9oRbs4

#math #methodology

How is #loneliness studied? Our new #ScopingReview of 35 reviews (1,089 studies!) maps the methodological landscape of loneliness #research.

We uncover key trends, evidence, challenges, & data gaps—offering insights for future studies.

Read our open-access paper: https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2025.2462632

@GESIS @TheresiaEll @DeboraMaehler @FakhriMomeni

#GESISblog #blog
Neuer Beitrag im GESIS Blog: Lukas Birkenmaier schreibt im 2. Teil seiner Reihe zur #Datenqualität über passende #Frameworks zum Testen von Datenqualitätsdefinitionen.

https://doi.org/10.34879/gesisblog.2025.94

#CallforPapers #cfp #PIAAC #Conference
The International PIAAC Research Conference, Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2025 in Mannheim, Germany

The conference will serve as a platform for sharing and discussing interdisciplinary research based on the Programme for the
International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).

Deadline for the submission of presentations and symposia: April 30, 2025

https://www.gesis.org/en/data-on-adult-education/conferences/piaac-conference-2025

In case you missed it! "Panel Conditioning in A Probability-based Longitudinal study: A Comparison of Respondents with Different Levels of Survey Experience" by Fabienne Kraemer, Henning Silber, Bella Struminskaya, Matthias Sand, Michael Bosnjak, Joanna Koßmann & Bernd Weiß

"Overall, we find evidence for both negative (i.e., disadvantageous for response quality) and positive (i.e., advantageous for response quality) panel conditioning."
#Research #Survey
https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smad004

In case you missed it! "Discussion of the 2022 Hansen Lecture: “The Evolution of the Use of Models in Survey Sampling”" by F Jay Breidt

"Morris Hansen made seminal contributions to the early development of sampling theory, including convincing government #survey administrators to use probability sampling as opposed to nonprobability methods like quota sampling. ... This article traces some of that history."
#Statistics
https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smad030

The JSSAM Call for Editors deadline has been extended to November 1!

Details are here:
https://academic.oup.com/jssam/pages/call-for-editor-applications

In case you missed it! Chloe Howard, Lara M Greaves, Danny Osborne & Chris G Sibley on "Is there a Day of the Week Effect on Panel Response Rate to an Online Questionnaire Email Invitation?"

"[O]ur findings provide reassurance when conducting ongoing panel studies that once participants have joined an existing panel study, the DOW that they are emailed to complete a follow-up questionnaire does not impact their likelihood of responding."
#Research #Surveys
https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smad014

New in Advance Access! "Estimating the Size of Clustered Hidden Populations" by Laura J Gamble, Lisa G Johnston, Phuong N Pham, Patrick Vinck & Katherine R McLaughlin

"This research proposes two modifications to a commonly used method of hidden population size estimation to make it applicable to cases where the underlying social network in the population is disconnected or weakly connected."
#Research #Statistics
https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smad025

Noch schnell bis zum 30.6.23 für den #DGOF Online-Forschungsförderungsfonds bewerben: Wir unterstützen euch mit einer #Anschubfinanzierung für euer #Forschungsprojekt aus dem Bereich der #Onlineforschung.

Alle Infos hier: https://www.dgof.de/forschungsfoerderung/online-forschungsfoerderungsfonds/

In case you missed it! "Optimizing Data Collection Interventions to Balance Cost and Quality in a Sequential Multimode Survey" by Stephanie M Coffey & Michael R Elliott

"We find that this optimization process allowed us to reduce data collection costs by nearly 10 percent, without a statistically or practically significant increase in the RMSE of mean salary or a decrease in the unweighted response rate."
#Research #Survey
https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smad007

New in Advance Access! "Interviewer Involvement in Respondent Selection Moderates the Relationship between Response Rates and Sample Bias in Cross-National Survey Projects in Europe" by Marta Kołczyńska, Piotr Jabkowski & Stephanie Eckman

"Based on our results, we recommend that surveys include procedures to verify respondent-selection practices into their fieldwork control procedures."
#research #surveys
https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smad013

In case you missed it! "Calibrated Multilevel Regression with Poststratification for the Analysis of SMS Survey Data" by Jonathan Gellar, Constance Delannoy, Erin Lipman, Shirley Jeoffreys-Leach, Bobby Berkowitz, Grant J Robertson & Sarah M Hughes

"We find that our cMRP approach is effective in replicating estimates from a larger and much more expensive FTF survey."
#Research #Statistics #Survey
https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smab033

3 questions, 3 hours. In our new format #NFDI3questions3hours, we invite you to an open discussion on our Mastodon instance.
The first issue will focus on the use of #AI in research. It starts on Tuesday, 23 May, at 1 pm. Under this profile @NFDI we will post three questions and open the lively discussion for three hours.

More: https://www.nfdi.de/new-discussion-format-nfdi3questions3hours-on-mastodon/?lang=en

#FDM #RDM

New in Advance Access! Braden Scherting, Alison J Peel, Raina Plowright & Andrew Hoegh on "Estimation of Covid-19 Prevalence Dynamics from Pooled Data"

"This [nonparametric, hierarchical Bayesian model] reduce[s] uncertainty compared to individual testing at the same budget and produce[s] similar estimates compared to individual testing at a much higher budget through simulation studies and an analysis of COVID-19 infections."
#Research #COVID #Statistics #Bayesian
https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smad011

JSSAM welcomes Jan Höhne as an Associate Editor for the Survey Methodology side of the journal.

Welcome, Jan!

By the way is it still imposter syndrome thinking when you are starting to think that not only you are faking but your whole discipline?