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Book launch social starting 6:00PM May 13, 2026 at the Los Angeles @thebonaventure 🆕📖 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴-𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 of 1⃣9⃣ chapters for improving research quality across cultures, languages, countries 👇🏻 amazon.com/Cross-Cultural…

#ThematicAnalysis #QualitativeResearch ok to 'blend' codebook + reflexive elements? MariekeHaan: 👍 when deliberate/justified ✔️ no single correct way, must fit aim ✔️ transparent in analytical choices➡️ quality ✔️ reflexive positionality (how roles🤔 shape analysis, decisions)

What is it about live video 🆚 other survey modes for respondent discomfort? @NSSRNews M.Schober "social presence" 👀, being 👀 perceived usefulness + enjoyment relative😱🫦 "mode-specific discomfort may play a larger role in survey (non)response than we have understood so far"

Besides in-person surveys, what're remote interviewing modes? @NSSRNews M.Schober Text-only web survey 📱☎️ Live video Play pre-recorded video of interviewers in web survey "On average, ppl are as uncomfortable in live video as in person, > uncomfortable than in other modes"

Is #AI standard speed or trust alone? #AAPOR Webinar @MLink01 and D.Graff-Radford @discuss_io formerly @Voxco: No, "it's faster 𝘢𝘯𝘥 trustworthy. And 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 what that means." GOOD RESEARCH is "what we can explain, evaluate, defend-and question when it looks wrong"

How to expect/verify "good" #AI use? @MLink01 #AAPOR Webinar 1⃣ transparent: HOW produced 2⃣ researcher-in-the-➿ 3⃣ reproducible 4⃣ validate w accuracy evidence: compare🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻, subgroup🔍 5⃣ compliant: handling/controls appropriate for your environment #TotalSurveyError? still👑

Can respondents give quality🗣️ on 📳? @chrisantoun01 #FedCASIC: yes but 🔎 UI choices modular design break long instrument but risk breakoff (need recontact method + low-friction return) 🤔in-the-moment measurement ➡️ event-specific info but recruitment/coverage/activity matter

📳 are today's #communication technology + 🆕#data types (apps, receipt scanning, in-store buys), what design issues 🤔researchers? @chrisantoun01 #FedCASIC 1⃣ device effects 2⃣ user interface 🔀 input error #usability 3⃣ survey burden 4⃣ real-time measurement 🆚 retrospective

Can #AI replace experts? TingYan @NORCNews #FedCASIC keynote #SurveyResearch future is "methodologist-driven w/ AI in service of goals" because ✔️ error-cost tradeoff reasoning ✔️ validity checks ✔️ human subject protections AI🚫 error/qual theory, 🏗️intent, accountable/ethic🤔

How's #AI use framed in survey research? Rothschild et al (2025): research colleague, interviewer, respondent, labeler, modeler, briefer ‼️ useful descriptors, not decision rules 🙏 Ting Yan #FedCASIC keynote

What's #ResponsibleAI? Ting Yan @NORCNews #FedCASIC keynote 1⃣ intentional 2⃣ fit for purpose 3⃣ human-in-the-loop 4⃣ Total Survey Error (TSE)-guided validation/eval 5⃣ Transparent 🤔 within the survey framework #AI roles ➡️ Survey needs What can AI do ➡️ what survey requires

🆕📖 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴-𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 presents 19 chapters on improving research design & quality across cultures, languages, countries 👇🏻 amazon.com/Cross-Cultural… Ch1⃣7⃣ uses Demographic and Health Surveys DHS data to study 🌍 coverage structure

Check out 🆕📖 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴-𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦! Presenting 19 chapters of useful and timely topics, methods & solutions to improve research quality across cultures, languages, countries 👇🏻 amazon.com/Cross-Cultural…

🙀 survey cost, use #SyntheticRespondents? @serinachang5 @UCBerkeley @berkeley_ai 👍 natural lang flexible inputs/outputs, pretraining knowledge stored in billions param ❗️out-of-the-box LLM biased toward groups, 🔽estimate w/in-grp variance So, finetune #LLM predict 🧑‍🦰response

Can #AI chatbots collect better survey data, not worsening experience? S.Barari #Likert symposium @MichPSM "#LLM can provide useful survey data [accurate coding @BLS_gov occu category, more specific/relevant responses] but too much may create a lower quality survey experience"

Postal push2web 🆚 dual-frame RDD @pewresearch study in Sweden, what to know? @MoynihanPatrick ✔️ frame=Swedish State Personal Address Registrar (SPAR) ✔️ (un)conditional incentive experiment ✔️ Yield=24%, 🛜71% 📰29% ⏭️steps: 🔎@ESS_Survey, 📫delivery, 💶avail host @LAPOP_Lab

Check out Chapter6⃣ led by @NORCNews scientist on #MachineLearning for multilingual survey evaluation 🆕📖Cross-Cultural Research in Practice presents useful timely topics, methods, solutions to 📈 research quality across cultures, languages, countries 👇🏻 amazon.com/Cross-Cultural…

#ISWGHS @UNStats handbook #survey on households individuals foundations, what're emerging approaches? ✔️ machine translation + post-edit ✔️ #GenAI draft/eval items, coding open-ends ✔️ Tools for workflow (DataCTRL), data capture, documentation ✔️ CAVI 🗣️, web probing, crowdsource

#ISWGHS @UNStats handbook #survey on households individuals foundations, what're 3⃣ applied frameworks for quex design #translation instrumentation? 1⃣ cognitive response process model 2⃣ QDET ques design, dev, eval, testing 3⃣ repsondent-centered design: ⤵️ burden, UX-informed

Check out Chapter2⃣ by @NORCNews researchers in 🆕📖 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴-𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 👇🏻 amazon.com/Cross-Cultural… The volume presents useful timely topics, methods, solutions to 📈 research quality & design across cultures, languages, countries.