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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My thoughts on why social science is important! Thanks to @cossa.bsky.social for the opportunity!!

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Get those papers submitted for the Survey Costs special issue of @surveypractice.bsky.social!

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

So grateful to be selected for the 2026 SRMS service award! Serving our profession - and especially the Survey Research Methods Section of @amstatnews.bsky.social - is a great honor.

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Survey people of BlueSky! Submit your papers to the @surveypractice.bsky.social Special Issue on Survey Costs by June 1. Guest edited by myself, @jameswagner254.bsky.social, Jill DeMatteis, John Eltinge, Daifeng Han, Chris Jackson, and Eric Rancourt! www.surveypractice.org/post/3724-20...

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2027 Special Issue on Survey Costs | Published by Survey Practice

Guest Editors: Kristen Olson, James Wagner, Jill DeMatteis, John Eltinge, Daifeng Han, Chris Jackson, Eric Rancourt

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

At least no one in a web+mail survey wants to talk with an interviewer! :) Happy to share the paper with anyone who is interested in it.

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Nick Valentino @nickvalentino.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

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2016-2020-2024-panel-merged-study - ANES | American National Election Studies

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

New article! About a year ago, I asked ChatGPT 3.5 to calculate the reading level of survey questions. It was totally wrong. And this paper was born! Trent Buskirk and I examine multiple ChatGPT and Claude models for evaluating question reading levels & inputs. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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“ChatBot” is a Two Syllable Word...Or Is It?: Using Generative AI for Survey Question Readability Assessments - Kristen Olson, Trent D. Buskirk, 2025

Market and survey researchers aim to write survey questions so that the target population can understand them. A common recommendation for general population st...

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

New paper alert! We examine the effectiveness of sending a follow-up incentive to nonrespondents after an initial prepaid incentive (a sequential incentive). Response rates increased with higher seq incentives, but costs skyrocketed with $5 vs. $1 or $2. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Will One More Dollar Help? The Effect of Sequential Incentives on Survey Participation and Costs in a Concurrent Mixed-mode Survey - Kristen Olson, Amanda Ganshert, Mia Bourek, 2025

Prepaid monetary incentives increase response rates in surveys. Whether offering a second monetary incentive to nonrespondents in web-and-mail surveys increases...

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Survey costs drive almost every data collection decision, but are woefully understudied. @aapor.bsky.social, @amstatnews.bsky.social, and @westatofficial.bsky.social are cosponsoring this important workshop on Survey Costs in February 2026! Submit your abstract today! aapor.org/aapor-2026-s...

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2026 Survey Costs Workshop - AAPOR

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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2026 Survey Costs Workshop - AAPOR

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Yes, that's a great example. Thanks! And contemporary.

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Yes, it's a great example! But I'm also interested in other examples of social science (or health) research ethical problems or issues or questions that don't make the "classic" examples list....

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I'm teaching a research ethics class for upper division undergraduates this semester. Looking for case study examples of ethical issues that aren't the BIG ones (e.g., Tuskegee, Milgram, Zimbardo) in a digestible form for undergrads (news articles, podcasts, videos, shorter articles).

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It was an honor to speak in this memorial session for Don Dillman at #JSM25. Don's influences on the science of surveys are extraordinary. But the primary words that people use to describe him at his memorial are kind, generous, honest, humble, and welcoming - I think he did something extra right.

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

@olsonkm.bsky.social kicks off our session celebrating Don Dillman at #JSM2025 with a discussion of Don’s contributions to survey methodology. Thanks to @statstas.datascience.blue for setting this up! 💯

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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I was honored to be the keynote speaker at the #ESRA25 @esrasurvey.bsky.social conference last week in Utrecht. A fantastic conference all around, with great talks on data collection methods, AI, data donation, questionnaire design, and much more.

Me (Kristen Olson) standing in front of my title slide that says "From Mail Surveys to Chatbots: Changes in Survey Modes, Methods, and Data Sources Over Time" at the keynote address at the European Survey Research Association conference in Utrecht

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Good news! Release 1 of the 2024 GSS is available for download. The 2024 GSS, like 2022, uses web, in-person, and phone modes. For some variables this can complicate analyses of trends. See documentation. Still a prob sample & gold standard survey w/ high resp rates (by contemporary standards).

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Get the Data | NORC at the University of Chicago

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

If you encounter what seems like an implausible survey finding, ask: 1. Were survey respondents selected randomly or was this an opt-in poll? 2. Could the results, especially for young adults, be driven by bogus respondents? Keep this post in mind: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

everything about this is simultaneously absolutely wrong and absolutely perfect

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I give comments to my students of “what’s the denominator?” all the time!This level of precision matters not only for understanding the group about whom one is making inference, but also to suggest whether it’s the whole set of respondents or a subset of them (and all the errors therein).

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Raphael Nishimura @rnishimura.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

🚨 Call for all AAPOR board gamers! 🚨 GAMEPOR is finally officially on the conference schedule, now named "Longitudinal Leisure Study (with board games)". Bring your favorite (and luggage friendly) board games to the conference and come join us for an epic game night! 🎲 #AAPOR @aapor.bsky.social

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Looking forward to the #AAPOR25 conference next week! I will be giving papers on visible incentives in mixed-mode surveys, mode preferences in today’s survey landscape, and using generative AI for reading level calculations of survey questions.

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Raphael Nishimura @rnishimura.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Hey data nerds, ANES 2024 Combined Pre- and Post-Election preliminary data is out now! Have fun! 🤓

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European Survey Research Association (ESRA) @esrasurvey.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We are thrilled that the amazing @olsonkm.bsky.social will give a keynote at #ESRA25! Title: "From Mail Surveys to Chatbots: Changes in Survey Modes, Methods, and Data Sources Over Time"! Register now for #ESRA25 & be part of the future of survey research!

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This article is a great example for a questionnaire design class!

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

We have a paper in this Special Issue of @surveypractice.bsky.social! Spanish translation of self-administered surveys in a rural are with higher concentrations of Spanish speakers yielded very few Spanish language completes, but they came from addresses w/a Hispanic surname indicator on ABS frame.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Here are a few studies I've published using data from Dept. of Educ / IES. None were funded by DoE/IES. Most are with Steve Morgan (often lead), Dafna Gelbgiser, and undergrad or grad students, some of whom went on to work for Dept. of Education. 1st Sue's 🧵, the inspiration for this one.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Over 1,000 submission to Social Science Computer Review in 2024! That's incredible. Please send us your best work! 📝 Follow this account to see the amazing work that we have published. 🏆

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The American National Election Study is an NSF funded publicly available, incredibly rich dataset that tracks American public opinion, vote choice and evaluations of government that has been in the field since 1948. It is an incredible resource for teaching and research and must be protected.

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I do think we should have discussions about how to do education research that is cost effective, but the implicit suggestion that the ED activities are wasteful/fraud is just wrong. Read on if you want concrete examples. Inexplicable Cuts at the Dept. of Education open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...

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Inexplicable Cuts at the Dept. of Education

Recently, DOGE has bragged about terminating 89 contracts worth a collective $881 million at the Institute for Education Sciences at the US Department of Education.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Cool job alert:

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Here are some facts about "facilities and administrative" (F&A) costs, what we in the business call "indirects" and what Musk is calling "overhead" as he tries to convince Americans with being ok with cutting billions on dollars from medical and public health research at universities & hospitals 1/

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 04/02/2025

The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a great org, asks individuals & orgs to sign their letter requesting Congress act to restore data that has been removed & ensure a similar purge does not reoccur. #EconSky #PolicySky #sociology #PoliSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Also see this fantastic resource from @vernharner.bsky.social which includes the above datasets and so much more: tiny.cc/2025drive

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Proton Drive

Securely store, share, and access your important files and photos. Anytime, anywhere.

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This was my assumption about the suppression rules as well….

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Survey programs appear to be back up at Census website. Working papers on survey methods are missing. The page says that there are 486 papers, but almost all are missing from display.

Screenshot of a Census website that says "showing 486 results" but only one paper is displayed, stating "2021 Initial Mailing Pressure Seal Test." All of the pages are blank.

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Main Census website is back up, but 2020, 2030, and 2026 test are still down. So is the American Business Survey, the AIES, CPS (BLS is still up), Household Pulse, County Business Patterns, and every individual survey or subpage (other than ACS?), from what I can tell.

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The 2020 and 2030 Census and 2026 test site is down.... And now it looks like the whole thing is gone again? www.census.gov/2030census

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you work with any federal data--on demography, economics, health, education, climate, agriculture, whatever--and you notice any changes this year in data availability, quality, or completeness, please let me know.

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Dr. Carina Cornesse @carinacornesse.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

📢 It happened! #ESRA is on Bluesky 🎉

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

When considering nominations for this award, PLEASE nominate women and statisticians of color! By my quick count, only 3 women and only 1 statistician who isn't white have won this award. There are many more than 3 great women and 1 great POC survey statisticians in the ENTIRE world.

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Nominations sought for the 2026 Waksberg Award! The winner will publish a paper that reviews the development and current state of an important topic in the field of survey statistics & methodology in the journal Survey Methodology & get an honorarium. #StatsSky www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/12-00...

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Waksberg Award

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Kristen Olson @olsonkm.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Roundtable abstracts are short (only 2-3 sentences are needed!) and help other JSM participants decide whether they want to register. Interested, but don't know what to write? Think someone else would be a good speaker and want us to reach out to them? Email me with ideas and suggestions. #StatsSky

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