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| May 9 2025 | Emma Rourke moved to the National Statistician role due to Sir Ian Diamond's health issues. |
| April 18 2025 | The ONS suggested that unreliable employment data was a result of issues with smart doorbells. |
| 2024 |
Society for Research Synthesis Methodology
Ian Shrier began serving as president of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology for the 2024-2025 term.
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| 2023 | Participated again in the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), continuing the assessment of 8th-grade students' computer and information literacy skills. |
| 2023 | The project exceeded 4,000 donors, further expanding its reader-supported funding base. |
| 2023 |
Society for Research Synthesis Methodology
Terri Pigott becomes president of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology for the 2023-24 term
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| 2023 | Launched the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship in Support of Diversity and Inclusion, a joint project with the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, focusing on supporting graduate students from underrepresented racial or ethnic minority groups in polling research. |
| December 2023 | PISA releases the results of its 2022 data collection, providing updated comparative insights into international educational performance. |
| 2022 | Total budget allocated to the federal statistical system was estimated at $7.1 billion. |
| 2022 | FTX's Future Fund offered Our World in Data a $7.5 million grant, which was ultimately rejected by the organization's board of trustees after due diligence. |
| 2022 |
Society for Research Synthesis Methodology
Tianjing Li serves as president of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology for the 2022-23 term
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| 2022 | PISA assessment focused on Mathematics, involving 37 OECD countries and 44 partner countries. 690,000 students participated, marking the largest participation to date. |
| 2022 | India did not participate in PISA rounds, citing COVID-19 pandemic disruption. |
| 2022 | Latest PISA study conducted, providing the most recent comparative data on educational performance in mathematics, science, and reading for participating countries. |
| 2022 |
Replication crisis
A follow-up study examined the practical impact of the competing recommendations for statistical significance thresholds, revealing limited implementation of the proposed p < 0.005 threshold or case-by-case justification approach in scientific research.
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| 2022 |
Replication crisis
A study suggested that many earlier brain-phenotype studies (brain-wide association studies or BWAS) produced invalid conclusions, noting that replication requires samples from thousands of individuals due to small effect sizes.
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| December 5 2022 | PISA 2022 results were officially presented, featuring data from around 700,000 participating students across 81 countries and economies, with Singapore emerging as the top performer in all assessment categories. |
| 2021 |
Research transparency
A large survey of 6,813 respondents in the Netherlands found 4% engaged in data fabrication and over half involved in questionable research practices, potentially indicating increased awareness of research integrity.
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| 2021 |
Research transparency
Rufus Barker Bausell published 'The Problem of Science', arguing that the reproducibility crisis affects almost all scientific disciplines, including social sciences, medicine, and physical sciences.
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| 2021 |
Research transparency
The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology analyzed 53 top cancer research papers published between 2010-2012, discovering that effect sizes were 85% smaller on average than original findings.
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| 2021 | Total budget allocated to the federal statistical system was estimated at $7.0 billion. |
| 2021 |
Metascience
Published academic systematic reviews increased to more than 45,000, representing a significant expansion in comprehensive research review practices over a decade.
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| 2021 |
Society for Research Synthesis Methodology
Georgia Salanti becomes president of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology for the 2021-22 term
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| 2021 |
Replication crisis
A study by Marta Serra-Garcia and Uri Gneezy investigated the citation patterns of non-replicable research papers in leading journals across general interest, psychology, and economics fields. The research revealed that papers with non-reproducible findings tend to be cited more frequently over time, despite their lack of scientific validity.
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| 2021 |
Replication crisis
A University of California, San Diego study discovered that papers which cannot be replicated are more likely to be cited, even after replication studies are published.
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| October 2021 |
Replication crisis
The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology examined 53 top cancer research papers published between 2010 and 2012, finding that effect sizes were 85% smaller on average compared to original findings when studies were attempted to be reproduced.
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| June 2021 | AAPOR/WAPOR Task Force published a report on Quality in Comparative Surveys |
| April 2021 | AAPOR approved the latest revision of its Code of Professional Ethics and Practices, reinforcing the organization's commitment to ethical standards in public opinion and survey research. |
| 2020 |
Research transparency
The Leiden Declaration was expanded and supplemented by the Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies (PREP), creating a database with information on editorial procedures for 490 journals, initially starting from 353 journals.
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| 2020 |
Research transparency
Empirical research concluded that pre-registration adoption remained slow in psychology journals between 2015 and 2020, indicating challenges in widespread implementation of this research transparency practice.
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| 2020 |
Research transparency
Kevin Elliott introduced a comprehensive taxonomy of eight dimensions of research transparency, which included purpose, audience, content, timeframe, actors, mechanism, venues, and dangers, providing a structured approach to understanding research transparency.
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| 2020 | Total budget allocated to the federal statistical system was estimated at $12.0 billion, the highest in the provided fiscal year range. |
| 2020 | Conducted the decennial census, which represented 54% of the federal statistical system's total budget for that fiscal year, significantly impacting the system's financial allocation. |
| 2020 | Over 3,000 individual donors supported the Our World in Data project, marking a significant milestone in reader-based funding. |
| 2020 | AAPOR held its 75th Anniversary conference, which was originally planned as an in-person meeting but was converted to a virtual meeting due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Planned PISA participation did not materialize, with India not taking part in the assessment. |
| 2020 | Swedish newspaper Expressen revealed that Sweden had inflated their PISA 2018 score by not testing a large number of foreign-born students, as confirmed by professor Magnus Henrekson. |
| 2020 | Regional Census Centers oversaw the operation of 248 Area Census Offices during the decennial census. |
| July 2020 |
Research transparency
The Hong Kong principles for assessing researchers were first adopted, acknowledging open science as one of the five pillars of scientific integrity.
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| April 1 2020 |
Information Services Division
Information Services Division became part of Public Health Scotland, implementing a collaborative approach recommended by the 2015 Public Health Review.
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| March 2020 | American FactFinder was decommissioned after 20 years, with data.census.gov becoming the new primary data dissemination platform. |
| 2019 |
Research transparency
Another study confirmed ongoing challenges with research notebook reproducibility, further highlighting the problems of extension availability and code compatibility.
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| 2019 |
Research transparency
The National Academies published a comprehensive report including a meta-analysis of 25 replication studies conducted between 1986 and 2019, highlighting the prevalence of replication efforts in medical and social sciences.
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| 2019 |
Research transparency
The National Academies of Science of the United States maintained the experimental definition of replication and reproduction, which remained inconsistent with definitions used by other major organizations.
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| 2019 |
Metascience
Progress Studies was explicitly proposed as a new field of research through an essay, conceptualized as an applied science aimed at understanding and prescribing interventions for scientific progress.
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| 2019 | The ONS admitted potential underestimation of EU migration to the UK due to methodological issues with the International Passenger Survey. |
| 2019 |
Society for Research Synthesis Methodology
Jack Vevea begins his presidency of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology, serving until 2021
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| 2019 | An article in AAPOR's e-journal Survey Practice highlighted professional pathways of two women leaders and AAPOR's contribution to their development. |
| 2019 | Approximately 5,000 of Britain's 16,000 primary schools adopt Shanghai's teaching methods, leading to improved performance in PISA. |
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