Author: RegBaker
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WARC Online Conference: Final Thoughts
Starting around 2009 MR conferences have increasingly been dominated by papers and presentations focused on the use of social media as a source of insight about brands, consumers, and markets. The combination of declining cooperation and rising costs in traditional methods; widespread concerns about basic panel data quality, representivity, and the long-term sustainability of the…
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WARC Online Conference Report
What follows is a post-hoc edited version of my attempt to blog the WARC Online Conference, subtitled Now & Next 2011, in London on Tuesday. It was chaired by Mike Cooke from GfK who gave us one of those insightful overviews that he always gives when he chairs one of these things. He always manages…
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Let’s hear it for poor taste!
An early entrant in The Most Tasteless MR Advert of 2011 contest. From a previous winner.
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Some things we should already know
Earlier in the week Jeffrey Henning (IMHO the best of the MR bloggers) served up a much-praised and frequently retweeted post on why respondents abandon Web surveys. His post does what most of the respondent engagement debate does not do and that is get down to some basic facts about what it is in surveys…
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Those pesky robo-polls
A new issue of Survey Practice is out and among the short articles is one by Jan van Lohuizen and Robert Wayne Samohyl titled "Method Effects and Robo-calls." (Some colleagues and I also have a short piece on placement of navigation buttons in Web surveys.) Like most people I know I have little regard for…
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TSE explained
I’ve been giving my share of presentations lately about the work of the AAPOR Online Panels Task Force, some of them to interested parties outside of the standard AAPOR constituency. Early on I always mention that we organized our literature review around the Total Survey Error Model (TSE) and I’ve learned that not everyone is…
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Let’s get on with it
I spent some time over the weekend putting the finishing touches on a presentation for later this week in Washington at a workshop being put on by the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council. The workshop is part of a larger effort to develop a new agenda for research into social science…
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A good idea but . . .
The empty threat of a major blizzard (forecast of up to 15" of snow with an actual snowfall of 5") here in Ann Arbor presented a nice excuse to stay home and catch up on some reading. The December issue of the Journal of Official Statistics was on the list and I was happy to…
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Getting straight on response rates
AAPOR's Standard Definitions: Final Dispositions of Case Codes and Outcome Rates for Surveys has long been the bible for survey researchers interested in systematically tracking response and nonresponse in surveys and summarizing those outcomes in standardized ways that help us judge the strengths and weaknesses of survey results. The first edition, published in 1998, built…