I show students the definitions of the 4 types of weights, to try to prevent them from using aw= (because that’s what the command accepts) when they have pweights. I doubt I’m successful

In case you missed it! "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 @stephnie.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1093/jssa...

@aapor.bsky.social@floriankeusch.bsky.social@daob.nl

BJbradjones.bsky.socialFeb 26, 2024 11:58pm

Survey researchers of Blue Sky, this is a new initiative of mine, and right now the queue is wide open meaning any new submissions have a high likelihood of acceptance: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #polisci #polisky

Call for proposals

Fantastic thread on data quality issues with inattentive respondents.We can’t weight our way out of these problems if the demographics are provide are wrong

Debatable — what do you mean by “very well”?

Sort of — in R, PLmixed will give you similar results (discrimination, difficulty) to mirt. PLmixed fits “mixed models with factor structures”

because they're economists 😉?

Searching for the dates of the next AAPOR conference, I typed in "aapor.org conference." None of the top hits were helpful --previous years, archived site I think we could use a little Search Engine Optimization, @aapor.bsky.social In the meantime -- include 2024 in your search (or "79th" 🙄🤪)

New Article Alert! "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 @stephnie.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1093/jssa...

Yes — some colleagues want to see an intercept slope version before they’ll trust the results