West Quoted in NPR on Recent MisInfo Day
CSDE Affiliate Jevin West (Information School, UW) was quoted by Kim Malcom in an NPR article about the recent MisInfo Day on UW’s Seattle campus. MisInfo day developed out of a popular UW course, co-created by Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom (Biology, UW) to guide undergraduates on how to identify misinformation. MisInfo Day was born from this course in 2019, when high school teachers were looking for similar guidance for their students. West spoke to NPR about the program’s intention – “The whole motivation for this program was to spend an entire day which might be the only day that many of these students will devote to this, what I consider one of the more important things that we can be teaching our public.” MisInfo Day continues to grow with events throughout Washington state. It will also expand to California this May.
CSDE Seminar – Displacing Kinship: an Affective and Aesthetic Study of the Vietnamese Refugee Family
JSDE Seminar to Host Maximiliano Lauletta (4/1/24)
JSDE (The Joint Seminar in Development Economics) will be having its first spring seminar with Maximiliano Lauletta on April 1st from 11:00-12:30 PM in 410 Savery. Lauletta studies the extent to which corruption or tax evasion occurs and the causal inference of efforts to change those behavioral patterns. See the links and stay tuned for updates on this talk!
*New* CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Hosts İhsan Kahveci on Evaluating Online Recruitment in COVID-19 Prosocial Behavior Surveys: Comparison of Social Media Sampling with Probability Sampling (4/3/2024)
On 4/3 from 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM, CDWG will host İhsan Kahveci to present his research. Ihsan Kahveci is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and an affiliated student at the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science. His research areas include 1) online and network sampling methods for survey data collection and 2) (mis)information diffusion through social networks. CDWG Will be Hybrid in the Spring Quarter of 2024. Register for Zoom here or attend in-person in Raitt 223.
Learn more about the talk in the full story!
Title: “Evaluating Online Recruitment in COVID-19 Prosocial Behavior Surveys: Comparison of Social Media Sampling with Probability Sampling”
Abstract: There has been a significant increase in the need for rapid, high-quality online surveys. The recent pandemic typified this. Because of this, there is a large need for methods to improve the generalizability of these online samples. While the literature shows that careful recruitment of respondents is critical for a quality survey, post-hoc adjustments can help achieve representativeness. One of the known limitations of online data collection is its ability to produce very large but highly biased samples. One solution to this problem is to stratify (e.g., gender) the recruitment process made available on the advertising platform (e.g., Facebook). Because the researcher does not have control of the randomization process on the advertising platform, it remains unclear if such an approach is, in general, beneficial or likely to cause even more bias. In this article, we test the viability of such an approach by analyzing a pro-social survey collected via Facebook’s advertising platform and reweighted using the US Census American Community survey data and a representative online panel-based survey known to be demographically representative of the United States. Our results show that the survey fielded on Facebook is biased towards college graduates and younger ages, even after post-adjustments. We implemented propensity score weighting based on a reference survey to minimize the observed bias and how it affected the public health measures across surveys. We found that propensity adjustment worked well for time-invariant measures such as the number of people with chronic health conditions. However, behavioral time-varied measures such as mask-wearing are still vastly underestimated. This work suggests that running small, high-quality probability sampling reference surveys to supplement the results of large-scale online survey projects can be a viable solution to selection bias in online surveys.
CSSS Seminar: Can we change “ideal worker” norms? The impact of workplace policies, composition, and post-pandemic culture (4/3/24)
Please join CSSS for their seminar with Elizabeth Hirsch, a professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on work and organizations, inequality, and the law. Most of her work examines how legal interventions and workplace policies affect gender, race, and ethnic inequality at work. This hybrid seminar will take place on April 3rd from 12:30-1:30 PM in 409 Savery and on Zoom. Learn more about the talk and joining on the event page.
*New* Panel on Viewing the Social Determinants of Health Through the Lens of Labor Policy and Action
Apply for the Visiting Poverty Scholars Program at the Institute for Research on Poverty (Due 4/3/24)
The Institute for Research on Poverty invites applications from U.S.-based scholars who belong to groups underrepresented in academia to apply for its Visiting Poverty Scholars Program. The Visiting Poverty Scholars Program aims to enhance the research interests and resources available to poverty scholars from underrepresented populations, foster interaction among a diverse set of scholars, and broaden the corps of poverty researchers. Beyond providing scholars an excellent venue for presentation of and feedback on their work, the visits provide extended contact and discussion with IRP/U.S. Collaborative of Poverty Centers (CPC) affiliates, which may lead to future collaborations. Application Deadline: April 3, 2024 (11:59 p.m. Central Time).
Lunch-and-Learn for the Center for Disaster Resilient Communities (4/3/24)
The next lunch-and-learn session for the Center for Disaster Resilient Communities will occur on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health and via Zoom. Lunch will be offered for in-person attendees. This event will feature Dr. Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Senior Research Scientist in the Materials and Structural Systems Division (Engineering Laboratory) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr. Mitrani-Reiser’s presentation will be, “Taking Measure: How Earthquake Reconnaissance Has Evolved Over Fifty Years.” Please see the flyer for more details and a registration link.
Request For Proposals: HPV Coverage Measurement (Gavi & BMGF) (Letters of Interest due 4/3/24)
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