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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Excited to announce that our book chapter ''Measuring Educational Attainment" has been accepted for publication in the upcoming Encyclopedia of Measurement in Social Sciences, 2nd edition. It has also been published in the Reference Collection in Social Science. Link below. lnkd.in/eVRSmNyS

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

It's interesting how we reward results that are both surprising and exactly what the author expected

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Great to be in Bristol today at the Centre for Multilevel Modelling to present joint work with @danilok.bsky.social and John Jerrim. Thanks @robgruijters.bsky.social for gracious hosting.

Good teachers are role models. Using Chilean administrative data, we estimate how teacher value-added (VA) affects the VA of students who later become teachers. Exposure to a math teacher with 1 SD higher VA raises teacher VA in the next generation by 0.20 SD and student achievement one generation removed by 0.06 SD. Effects compound with longer exposure and appear driven by observable classroom practices. Under plausible assumptions, these spillovers raise cumulative returns to instructional quality by 40 percent over two generations and 66 percent in the long run.

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

It is interesting to see the subtle differences between a simple Uniform National Swing model taking three week polling averages (left) compared to the latest MRP model projection by Electoral Calculus (right). A big difference is the underestimation of UNS models for the Greens.

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Last Friday I had a great time presenting on work constructing synthetic cohorts and using linked administrative data using the UKHLS. See below for a snapshot of those results or follow the link to my website to download the slides and find out more here lnkd.in/eKanfR2a

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

As of yesterday, I have officially passed my Viva! Very surreal that the PhD journey has come to an end.

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

For those interested in Handling Missing Data Methods, see via the link some SGSSS training materials that cover a wide range of methods and materials in both R and Stata format: scott0atley.github.io/Scott0atley/... #sociology #socsky #quant

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Fantastic opportunity to network and present with some fantastic quant people!

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Very happy to announce that I will be joining the ELSA team as a Research Associate over at the University of Manchester. Super lucky to get the chance to work with some great people! #academicsky #sociology

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I've finally been able to set up a Jupyter Notebook that can use Stata, R, Python, and Mplus all at the same time. The base Python kernel means that for Mplus to run, it has to run the Mplusautomation package through R which is then run through Python. The time delay is surprisingly fine so far!

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

As of a few days ago I have officially (officially, officially thanks admin) submitted my PhD. This is my formal apology tweet to all the emails that have gone unanswered over the past few months. An apology email tour is planned. Now on to submitting this growing pile of paper manuscripts!

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It is also (more likely) their browser, switching to an alternative usually does the trick.

Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Just looking at the backend now. Appears to be a user spike issue. I’d suggest getting them to pair up for the time being. This has been reported before, we are waiting on some funding to increase capacity.

Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

That’s amazing to hear! Do let me know if your class has any comments or run into any issues.

Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Introducing: socstrat A new command available on ssc for stata users. This command cleans and generates a full analytical 8-category NS-SEC based on either SOC 90, 00, 10, or 20 as well as RGSC on SOC 90, 00, or 10. Hopefully this makes life a little easier for people. #academicsky #stata

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Bit of a Hail Mary ask but does anyone have a link to the SOC 2020 derivation of NS-SEC that includes the 1.1 & 1.2 breakdown of NS-SEC 1? The official documentation appears to have abandoned this practice from SOC 90-2010. Or are you now forced to code into operational classes -> analytical now?

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

NS-SEC Stata program coming circa 2025 possibly...

Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

... (though something similar could exist and I am unaware?). You are of course right, doing something like this is ultimately a trade-off between measurement error and interpretability. It certainly seems better than studies that stick SA clusters into a MLM and calls it a day.

Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Promising in the sense that this new method appears to provide the ability to make such a tradeoff. The bootstrapping provides a relative threshold mechanic to assess the relative cluster stability. I think this is what has been missing from models that use SA clusters...

Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Update for the update: 1) Dynamic Button selection improves user quality 2) tied server load to button selection to speed up results 3) slimmed down latent trait code so crashes should now be a thing of the past please do comment/message any more suggestions. Code available in about us page!

Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The Class Calculator has been updated! Check out our new and improved teaching tool here: eosscc.shinyapps.io/Edinburgh_Cl... Comes with 7 social class schemas to interact with. #academicsky #socsky

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

There are attendance monitoring systems in place. Though I have no idea why any member of academic staff would use them. I am not a immigration enforcement officer and realistically that is why attendance is recorded.

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Thank you for the suggestion. Off the top of my head the differences in R^2 are very small, but I will re-run some analysis to test for sure.

My general conclusion also - though I do feel there is some interesting effect size differences going on when duplicating the 2007 paper's model on auth-lib scales? If all are measuring the same thing, I suppose that opens the "Is it measuring status or social distance?" conversation once more.

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Had some really great feedback on this talk yesterday. I'm still not entirely convinced myself here, but I think it is a useful exercise nevertheless. Things to consider: Gender sensitivity How to account for women falling out of work? Negative loading of social intercourse ...

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

High correlations between measures. The correlation between my measure and C-G is equivalent to the correlation of the C-G measure and proportion of A'levels in the 2004 paper.

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I just gave a talk on social status to the @largesocialsurveys.bsky.social group. To check out the presentation head over the my website and download it: scott0atley.github.io/Scott0atley/...

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If you want to follow along with tomorrows training “Survey and Questionnaire Construction: the Shiny Package in R” that I’m hosting @edinburghup.bsky.social find the training materials on my website: scott0atley.github.io/Scott0atley/... #academicsky #socsky #Rtraining

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Scot Hunter @scothunter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Wee jaunt to University of Stirling for a super useful and informative weights workshop delivered by Pierre Walthery from the UK Data Service. Cheers @kateohara.bsky.social for organising through the Large Social Surveys group (time to make a blue sky account so I can tag you pls).

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Serge GUIMOND @seguimon1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Yes, this works very well & easy to do - use ORCID ✌️ #socialpsyc #psychSciSky #AcademicSky

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Obsidian! It's a fantastic note taking tool that uses markdown so it is super flexible. It is also possible to integrate it with Zotero (I believe other citation software are also supported?)

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Loving the weights training organised by @kateohara.bsky.social today at Stirling #academicsky #socsky

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I am already foreseeing the papers coming from the Bluesky rev. Who gets sorted into the most prestigious “starter packs” as reifying status etc #socsky

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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Reminder that we’re hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology at UCL Social Research. Position is open to any applied field, deadline 20 December. (Reposting as the link was broken) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Scott Oatley @scottoatley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Let’s see if I can do this right. I’m just finishing writing up my PhD on youth transitions with a focus on social stratification and handling missing data, say hi and maybe offer me a job? #academicsky