If you can influence data collection, question is whether you can change y. Is there a true ceiling effect? (As in you want to measure a skill most people achieve, or is it an effect of measurement). This also affects how i would model. Is the "ceiling" a real thing or not?

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De NTR en NOS zijn toch twee andere omroepen met een andere taak?

Eerlijkere loonverdeling in het hoger onderwijs Zeker nu minister Bruins van OCW de grootste bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs in decennia heeft aangekondigd is het essentieel dat de sector zich niet tegen elkaar uit laat spelen en solidair met ...

Ik ben tegen een algemene procentuele verhoging van de WO salarissen, zeker in een tijd dat werkdruk een groter probleem is dan salariëring (zeker voor de hogere schalen in het WO)

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Het hele idee dat je tegelijk verschillende toetsen wilt, on tegemoet te komen aan het idee dat scholen andere dingen willen meten (en concurrentie tussen aanbieders, en dat dan tegelijk de uitkomsten wel vergelijkbaar moeten zijn, is veel te ambitieus. Is voor invoering uitgebreid voor gewaarschuwd

Agree. The success of a scale is not "exist", but in being used, pref beyond academia

It is a global threat. Keep posting what is going on. People need to know, people need to protest. Especially at universities.

I wasnt going anyway, but we had a discussion with colleagues that under current circumstances, we dont want to go to USA for work

Far right politics mixed with a very traditional centre-right fear of debt in other EU countries

Wie komt de fantastische afdeling Sociologie op de Universiteit Utrecht versterken?

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

I am so angry about all of this. Kudos to Zelensky: sucking up to bullies is never the answer

Wat tof. Gefeliciteerd!

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Utrecht is lovely in summer!
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Ik vind het onbegrijpelijk. En volgende keer weer "geschokt" zijn. Het hele beleid rond inclusie en gelijkheid is hiermee ook een lachertje

Volgens mij wordt @casperalbers.nl 50 dit jaar, dus dit klopt niet. Is waarschijnlijk iedere 16,6 jaar

All well Jon?

A friendly reminder that you can still get decent (60%) response rates on probability samples but it takes more money than our research infrastructure can support after 25+ years of federal divestment from the basic social sciences and "in silico" surveys and "digital twins" are not the solution.

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I think all international polling post-mortems since 2016 have shown late deciders and selective non response/coverage were problems. Ill stick with those for this cycle too.

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No paper yet i am afraid. I need to free up some time to get this done. Hopefully soon, that is before end of year. Will post it here when it is done

Aha. Still weird it is not on the "50 books" list, but nothing to do about that

We could still nominate it, right? I agree this is weird

I think the diff between post and prepaid is not so important beyond wave 1 of panel. Several surveys experimented with incentive amounts in wave 1 ( share, liss, gip), not sure all have looked at effects on attrition. I remember in LISS attrition was higher in the hi-incentive group.

The justification often comes from policy making. So rather than papers, documents from eg. statistics Netherlands are better sources imo. Eg www.cbs.nl/-/media/impo...

This is actually quite common in sampling (survey statistics): e.g. "how precise do you want your estimate of the unemployment rate?". And frankly, I find it a much better and more intuitive way of sample size planning than using statistical power.