@umpamdk
Director of the Survey Research Center @um-src.bsky.social Univ. of Michigan Dev/Quant. Prof. of Psychology. Longitudinal researcher studying SES, parenting, math dev, achievement, and data science. Open science supporter.
Don't miss your chance - ASPIRE applications due on Monday! Spelman College and Morehouse College students - learn more and apply: youthpolicylab.umich.edu/aspire
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Register now for the online workshop "Text Analysis: Computational Language Modeling for Social Sciences," May 18-22.
📊 Text Analysis: Computational Language Modeling for the Social Sciences 📊
Join this workshop for an introduction to computational #LanguageModeling for social science data and problems. For more info: myumi.ch/A1gep
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Welcome to the #FridayQuiz! Friday morning we will set a question & then give the answer in the afternoon. All of our questions are based on publications at our website: src.isr.umich.edu
#AcademicSky 🧪
Join us 4/1/26 to celebrate the career of Barbara Anderson, Ronald A. Freedman Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Population Studies. 1040 LSA Building, 500 State St., Ann Arbor, 3 to 5 pm. Zoom link will be available for virtual guests. Remarks at 3:30.
📌 We're celebrating the magnificent career of sociologist, demographer, and mentor Barbara Anderson! Please use the RSVP form to leave memories and notes for Barbara and reply by March 20 to attend live. A Zoom link will also be available. psc.isr.umich.edu/events/barba...
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This Women’s History Month, we recognize the women leading ISR, the major centers and initiatives at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.
Their leadership drives research that informs policy and strengthens communities worldwide!
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Kate Cagney directs ISR, @burgards.bsky.social leads the Population Studies Center, @umpamdk.bsky.social directs the Survey Research Center, @profpjones.bsky.social will lead the Center for Political Studies and @maggielevenstein.bsky.social directs ICPSR.
Incredible work by the NIMLAS folks! @bradytwest.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social
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Tuesday! We're excited to join @um-src.bsky.social for our own Faculty Affiliate @spattersearch.bsky.social's talk! ⬇️
The historical pattern in the House is that the incumbent president’s party loses seats in the midterm election. There have been 20 midterm elections in the post-World War II period, and the president’s party has lost seats in 18 of them. The exceptions were in 1998 when Bill Clinton was being impeached and 2002 after the 9/11 attacks when George W. Bush was in office. The range of losses was from 4 in 1962 in John F. Kennedy’s presidency after the Cuban missile crisis to 63 in 2010 during Barack Obama’s second term, after dissatisfaction with the economy and the debates and passage of the Affordable Care Act. In the 2018 midterm election during Donald Trump’s first term, the Republican party lost 40 seats in the House. The bar graph shows midterm house seat losses for the president's party in all but 3 of midterm house elections since 1934.
Michael Traugott: The historical pattern in the House is that the incumbent president’s party loses seats in the midterm election.The president’s party gained seats in only 2 midterms after WWII-- after Clinton's impeachment and the 9/11 attacks when Bush was in office. cpsblog.isr.umich.edu?p=3590
Learn more about the ISR Insights Speaker Series event, "Introducing the Longitudinal Study of Health and Ageing in Kenya (LOSHAK)": events.umich.edu/event/138328
Thanks for the shout out for this absolute classic! While eventually superseded by General Interviewing Techniques: A self-instructional workbook for telephone and personal interviewer training, the revised edition of the Interviewer's Manual is still available: hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.8903...
This is consistent with earlier psychometric work that suggests 5-7 is the best response scale options, but good to see that the finding holds up in contemporary research. Also, good to see that labeling scales whether anchored or not has little impact on findings. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...
On my way there now!
A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social:
The Deliberation Taboo
Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Now I know what to try while in Australia 😉
On my way to Australia to talk life course longitudinal data collection and socioeconomic status and child development. A little discussion of social media in the mix as well. Looking forward to lots of thoughtful conversations.
New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...
Join us, Tuesday, March 3 at 1:00 for @spattersearch.bsky.social: Caregiving for Older Adults: Expectations and Choice
More information & zoom link: events.umich.edu/event/145276
1430 ISR-Thompson
“In short, we should expect the level of scrutiny on papers to change dramatically. Most reviewers are not incentivized to look carefully at materials the authors submit beyond the paper text itself.”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/23/l...
Read more about the IAM+ index and its implications for healthy aging: myumi.ch/G2nG1
“With approximately half a million Americans diagnosed with dementia annually, this translates to nearly 90,000 cases that could potentially be prevented—a truly significant figure.” Kelly Bakulski, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Michigan Public Health
New U-M research reveals older adults with high cumulative lead exposure face nearly triple the Alzheimer's risk. The study suggests reducing population lead levels could prevent thousands of dementia cases annually. myumi.ch/qZeXx
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Consumer sentiment was largely unchanged in February at 56.6, per the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.
ISR economist Joanne Hsu highlights persistent frustration over high prices and sharp divides by wealth and income in how Americans see the economy.
Announcement from the University of Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics about the upcoming PSID User Workshop during the 2026 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods. Event takes place June 15–19 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Includes a prompt to apply by April 15 and a link for more information.
Calling all #data users! The #PSID Summer Workshop returns to Ann Arbor, MI June 15-19! Join us at @icpsrsummer.bsky.social program to explore the core PSID interview, its special topics & supplemental studies.
Get the details on this 5-day, in-person workshop & apply by April 15:
myumi.ch/QwRd3
Meet @bradytwest.bsky.social of SRC's Survey Methodology Program. His research focuses on methodological advances in #AppliedStatistics, #SurveyMethodology & #PublicHealth. He takes well-deserved pride in his ability to teach complex concepts in #statistics & #methodology myumi.ch/9pzDE
Congratulations, Carly!!
Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects
doi.org/10.1177/2515...
