DC-AAPOR

  The Washington-Baltimore Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research

2007 Results

The Washington-Baltimore Chapter of AAPOR is pleased to announce the winner of the 2007 Student Paper Competition, sponsored by SRBI.

Carl Gershenson (University of Chicago) is recognized for the outstanding quality of his paper:

• "The Scientific American: A Casualty of the Culture Wars?"

2007 Review Committee

Paul Beatty, National Center for Health Statistics
Carl Ramirez, Government Accountability Office
Adam Safir, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Michael P. Cohen, consultant, retired Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Jennifer L Beck, U.S. Census Bureau
Eileen O'Brien, Energy Information Administration
Danna Basson, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc (Chair)

2006 Results

The Washington-Baltimore Chapter of AAPOR is pleased to announce the winner of the 2006 Student Paper Competition, sponsored by SRBI.

Amy Corning (Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan) is recognized for the outstanding quality of her paper:

• "When the Past is Another Country: The Impact of Emigration on Memories"

Two papers were recognized as honorable mentions:

• Danna Basson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "The Impact of Accessible Political Knowledge on Voters' Candidate Evaluations, Issue Positions, and Issue Consistency"



• Magdalena Wojcieszak (University of Pennsylvania), "Where the differences lie: Assessing Exposure to Dissimilar Political View from Discussants, News Media and Online Groups"

2006 Review Committee

Paul Beatty, National Center for Health Statistics
Carl Ramirez, Government Accountability Office
Barbara O'Hare, Arbitron
Adam Safir, RTI, International
Eugene Burns, Bureau of Transportation Statistics/Energy Information Administration
Michael P. Cohen, consultant, retired Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Eileen O'Brien (Chair), Energy Information Administration

2005 Results

The Washington-Baltimore Chapter of AAPOR is pleased to announce the winner of the 2005 Student Paper Competition.

Hyunjoo Park, a recent graduate of the Survey Methodology Program at the University of Michigan, is recognized for the outstanding quality of her paper:

• "The influence of question wording on the reporting of contraceptive method use"

Two papers were recognized as honorable mentions:

• Tarek al-Baghal (JSPM), "Bias in Telephone Samples"



• Magdalena Wojcieszak (University of Pennsylvania), "Computer-Mediated Public Opinion: Impact of Ideologically Homogeneous Groups on Pluralistic Ignorance"

2005 Review Committee

Paul Beatty, National Center for Health Statistics
John Boyle, Schulman, Ronca, Bucuvalas, Inc.
Mike Cohen, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Sarah Dipko, Westat
Laura Flicker, RTI International
Jennifer Hunter, Bureau of the Census
Dawn Nelson, Bureau of the Census
Carl Ramirez, Government Accountability Office
Adam Safir (Chair), RTI International
Rob Santos, NuStats

2004 Results

The Washington-Baltimore Chapter of AAPOR is pleased to announce the winner of the 2004 Student Paper Competition.

Rachel Dinkes, a recent graduate of The London School of Economics and Political Science, is recognized for the outstanding quality of her paper:

• "Neighbourhoods Matter: Fixed and Random Effects in Police Satisfaction Surveys in the UK"

Two papers were recognized as honorable mentions:

• Tarek al-Baghal (JSPM), "Can You Hear Me Now?: Differences in Vote Report Between Cellular and Landline Telephone Respondents"



• Carl Setzer (JPSM), "Replicate Measures: A latent class analysis of measurement error"

2004 Review Committee

Paul Beatty, National Center for Health Statistics
Mike Cohen, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Mike Donatello, Consultant
Dawn Nelson, Bureau of the Census
Carl Ramirez, Government Accountability Office
Adam Safir (Chair), RTI International