Date:
Friday, February 13, 2015, 8:00am to 12:00pm
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8:00am to 12:00pm
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1730 Cambridge St., Belfer Case Study Room, S020
New Frontiers in Preventing, Detecting, and Remediating Fabrication in Survey
Research
Presented by:
The New England Chapter, American Association for Public Opinion Research
The American Statistical Association
The Harvard Program on Survey Research
*Event Overview:* This half day mini-conference will explore new ideas in
preventing, detecting, and remediating fabrication in survey research.
Presentations, discussion, and Q&A will focus on both practical and
theoretical considerations in addressing fabrication in today's challenging
survey environment. Two of the three presentations will focus specifically on
international survey research, where anecdotal evidence suggests the problem
is often the greatest, and where prevention and detection are the most
difficult.
Speakers for this event include:
* Gina Faranda - Director, Office of Opinion Research, U.S. Department of
State
* Michael Robbins - Project Director, Arab Barometer
* Rita Thissen - Sr. Research Programmer/Analyst, RTI International
*Discussants:*
* Fritz Scheuren, NORC
* Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard Medical School
*The event is free and open to the public.*
This is part of a 2014-15 series of events and articles exploring new
frontiers in preventing, detecting, and remediating fabrication in survey
research. The first event, held in December, 2014, focused on
interviewer-level fabrication and also touched on evidence of apparent
machine assisted fabrication, where a computer is used to generate data, as
opposed to more traditional \'curbstoning\'. This event is currently being
written up by the panelists for submission to the Statistical Journal of the
International Association of Official Statistics (IAOS). The IAOS recently
published an article by Peter Winker exploring a new method of detecting
fabrication using synthetic data.
Another event is planned for June with the Washington Statistical Society,
and is in the planning stages. And a session on fabrication was accepted for
the Total Survey Error conference in Baltimore, MD, to be held in September
2015.
Partial support for this event is provided to the Institute for Quantitative
Social Sciences at Harvard University through the Eric C. Mindich fund for
conferences in experimental social sciences.
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