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Andrea Forster

@aforster.bsky.social

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Sociologist. Assistant Prof. at Utrecht University. Social stratification, educational and labor market inequalities, school to work transition, hiring behavior #firstgen (she/her) www.andrea-forster.com

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Andrea Forster @aforster.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Reminds me of the time when I asked chat gpt to change an SPSS output on a lecture slide into an R output

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Andrea Forster @aforster.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Yeah! Congratulations!!

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Andrea Forster @aforster.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Interesting question! We didn't pose hypotheses on field differences beforehand, so we didn't want to dig around and didn't include it in the study. We've done analyses on another topic with the data and there we didn't see patterns related to labor market tightness across occupatinal fields

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Andrea Forster @aforster.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

...in a second step make final dichotomous decisions about who they want to invite. In addition, the format is fairly common in FS research and we wanted to validate a common FS type. That also goes for discrete choice experiments ofc, so would be great to see that addition in future studies. (2/2)

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Andrea Forster @aforster.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Thanks! Yes, definitely a good question for further investigation. We chose the format mostly because it appeared to us as the least "hypothetical" decision situation as also in real hiring, employers first screen all applications, attaching likelihoods and then... (1/2)

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Katrin Auspurg @kauspurg.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

This is an extremely relevant and interesting study that shows that behavioral intentions measured in survey experiments should not be mistaken for a measure of actual behavior. And it is a nice example of studies that replicate themselves by using different research designs!

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Ely Strömberg @elystromberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Important new work by @aforster.bsky.social and @neugebauer.bsky.social. Have been waiting for someone to test this, glad that it happened! Survey experiments often take it for granted that effects translate to behaviour even though there is very little evidence for this.

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Andrea Forster @aforster.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Across conditions, the FS results did not correspond well with the real-world benchmark. We conclude that researchers must exercise caution when using factorial surveys to study (hiring) behavior (4)

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Andrea Forster @aforster.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

We varied the topic sensitivity and tested whether behavioral predictions were more successful after filtering out respondents who gave socially desirable answers or did not exert sufficient effort when answering FS vignettes. (3)

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Andrea Forster @aforster.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

We took hiring decisions as a use case. In a field experiment, we sent out ~3000 applications to job vacancies in Germany and measured employer responses. Eight weeks later, we presented nearly identical applicant profiles to the same employers as a part of a factorial survey (2)

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Andrea Forster @aforster.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

New Publication with @neugebauer.bsky.social in Sociological Science! Factorial surveys are widely used to predict real-world decisions, but are they valid? Our results raise concerns when it comes to predicting real-world decisions from factorial survey responses (1)

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Andrea Forster @aforster.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Ahh I didn't know that this existed. Always surprised how many of those phrases you can literally translate from German

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