2014 Annual PAPOR Conference
Agenda and Presentations
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Note: The original agenda was altered due to complications arising from a storm and the resulting power outage.
What follows is the revised agenda.
| THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014 | |
| 8:00am – 10:30am | Short Course 1: Using Survey Data to Identify Causal Relationships: Designing & Administering Survey Experiments |
| 10:30am – 10:45 | Mid-Morning break – Sponsored by SSI |
| 10:45am – 1:15pm | Short Course 2: Expanding the Survey Landscape: Cultural Aspects of Sampling, Nonresponse, and Measurement |
| FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014 | |
| 8:30am – 10:00am | Panel 1 |
| A New Method for Pre-Election Polling: A Critical Test, Michael Barber, Quin Monson, and Kelly Patterson, Brigham Young University; Peyton Craighill and Scott Clement, Washington Post; Christopher B. Mann, Louisiana State University | |
| Which Ad? Oh Yeah, That One: Improving Ad Effectiveness Questions Through Priming, Tom Wells, Antonia Toupet, and Samantha Mowrer, Nielsen, presentation | |
| A Comparison of Smart Phone, Tablet, and Desktop/Laptop Responses in a Web Survey, Leora Lawton, TechSociety Research and UC Berkeley; Donald Wolf, Jr., Tuition Financing, Inc. | |
| Separating the Wheat from the Tare: Identifying Which Combinations of Satisficing Tests are Most Effective, Paul Johnson, SSI | |
| A Neighborhood-Based Approach to Understanding Health and Healthy Living in Urban Communities, Vashuda Narayanan, Denise St. Clair, & Katelyn Duffy, Westat, presentation | |
| 10:00am – 10:15am | AAPOR Presentation – AAPOR Presentation, Mollyann Brodie, AAPOR Vice President/President-Elect |
| 10:15am – 10:30am
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Poster Session and Break
Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado, presentation Consensus Seeking in Beijing, Zhang, presentation |
| 10:30am – 12:15pm | Panel 2: |
| Uncommon Sample, Unique Insights: Assessing a 200,000 Respondent Pre-Election Survey, Jon Cohen, SurveyMonkey | |
| Can Local Pre-Election Polls Influence Voting? Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments, David L. Vannette, Stanford University and Sean J. Westwood, Princeton University | |
| California: The Great Exception in a Nation Increasingly Voting Republican, Mark DiCamillo, Field Research | |
| Nationalized Colorado Election: Forecasts and Polling, Floyd Ciruli, Ciruli Associates | |
| 12:15pm – 1:15pm | Lunch and PAPOR Chapter Meeting |
| 1:30pm – 3:00pm | Panel 3: |
| Is Democracy Being Served? Innovations for Reaching Cell Phone Users in a TPCA-Driven Environment, Mary McDougall, CFMC, presentation | |
| A Sentiment-al Journey: Text and Sentiment Analysis of Online Discussion Responses, Susan Corbelli and Anya Suneson, presentation | |
| A Neuroscience Experiment to Measure Subconscious Reactions to Data Collection Materials, Tom Wells & Ingrid Nieuwenhuis, Nielsen, presentation | |
| Using Social Media to Measure Public Opinion, Jon Cohen, SurveyMonkey | |
| 3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Panel 4:
Do More Intense Recruitment Efforts Lead to Lower Completion Rates of Subsequent Waves in a Longitudinal Panel Study?, Eran N. Ben-Porath, SSRS; Mollyann Brodie and Bianca DiJulio, The Kaiser Family Foundation; Kasey Meehan, SSRS Developing a Research Program at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Mark E. Vande Kamp, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Lessons in Survey Methodology for Research Focused on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Populations, Amy Simon & Rebekah Orr, Goodwin Simon Strategic Research |