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Tag: Web Panels

  • Tardy report on last November’s “Research Industry Summit “

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    Shame on me. Way back in November Colleen Carlin attended a conference in Chicago and dutifully wrote up a report for me to share. Then somehow it got lost in my inbox. Imagine that! In the vein of better late than never here is her report. (As a footnote, this is the same conference referred…

  • Is the online data quality issue fading?

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    So asks Inside Research in its December issue.  The cited evidence is from the latest so-called "Research Industry Summit" hosted by RFL Communications where attendance was off steeply from previous conferences and there just was not a whole lot new being said.    For some while now we have been seeing panel vendors and researchers alike…

  • ESOMAR Panel Research 2008: Day One

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    This post is a bit late, for which I apologize. I’m here in Dublin at the Panels Conference.  We began the first day by hearing the Program Chairman declare that this was the last panels conference.  By that he meant that the next one (if you can draw 200 people like this one ESOMAR will…

  • Finding Duplicate Panel Respondents

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    Contributed by Colleen Carlin: Just finished virtually attending a webinar titled "Detecting and Rejecting Duplicate Responses in Online Surveys" presented by Bill MacElroy of Socratic Technologies. This problem major risk with high incidence populations, but when we are after low incidence, frequently surveyed respondents the risk might be substantial. Based on Bill's experience there are…

  • More Bad Press

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    The June 16 issue of BusinessWeek does some piling on with an article titled, “Online Polls: How Good Are They?”     It’s the sort of superficial piece you’d expect, but we should not be surprised if a client or two doesn’t bring it to our attention.    To the author’s credit, he interviewed Jon Krosnick who has…

  • “It’s a Bright Sunshiny Day”

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    This report from AAPOR filed by Colleen Carlin (with apologies to Jimmy Cliff). Finally, a sunshine-filled day here at AAPOR and maybe some good news for survey researchers… Doug Rivers of Stanford University presented a paper on professional respondents in web surveys; having received the data only 24 hours prior to his presentation, in-depth analyses…

  • Sharing the Problem of Panel Data Quality

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    Yesterday I took part in the inaugural meeting of the CASRO Panel Integrity Task Force.  I was impressed on two fronts.  First, there is a clear determination to  be in sync with the ARF’s Online Research Quality Council, the much-watched panel quality initiative launched last year.  Two members of the CASRO Task Force are also…

  • Great Minds!

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    No sooner had I finished my last post suggesting that perhaps the industry was focusing on the wrong things relative to panel data quality than into my inbox came a call for papers for the next ESOMAR Panels Conference.  Of particular relevance is this section of the call: The research industry as a whole is…

  • The Latest Thinking on Panel Quality

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    Way back in October I spent two days chairing the ESOMAR Panels Conference in Orlando. Eighteen papers in all under four broad headings: Data Quality, Panel Quality, Proprietary Panels, and New Developments. There was a lot of good stuff and some not so good, but one thing that really struck me is the gradual shift…

  • The Changing Panel Landscape

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    Over the last couple of weeks I have been in two different forums where there was heavy discussion about panel quality and the future of online research. The first of these was the ESOMAR Panels Conference which, despite being in the US, had mostly Europeans presenting. The second was the Respondent Cooperation Forum, the same…