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| 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 | 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 | 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 |
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 | 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. |
| 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 | 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. |
| 2019 |
Replication crisis
A study published in Scientific Data analyzed 1,989 articles on water resources and management from 2017, revealing an extremely low reproducibility rate of between 0.6% to 6.8% due to insufficient methodological information.
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| July 2019 | Census Bureau stopped releasing new data via American FactFinder. |
| 2018 | The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act was passed, establishing the Commissioner as the Statistical Official for the U.S. Department of Education under Section 314. |
| 2018 |
Society for Research Synthesis Methodology
Christopher H. Schmid serves as president of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology for the 2018-19 term
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| 2018 |
Factfulness
Hans Rosling's book 'Factfulness' was published posthumously, exploring global misconceptions about world progress and presenting a new framework for understanding global development levels.
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| 2018 | PISA assessment continued, offering detailed insights into student performance and educational outcomes across international contexts. |
| 2018 | PISA adds global competence as a new innovative domain to its international student assessment program. |
| 2018 | PISA assessment returned to Reading focus, expanding to 37 OECD countries and 42 partner countries. 600,000 students participated. |
| 2018 | Chinese provinces of Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang participate in PISA testing. |
| 2018 |
Replication crisis
A study published in Nature Human Behaviour replicated 21 social and behavioral science papers from Nature and Science, finding that only about 62% could successfully reproduce original results.
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| July 19 2018 |
Human subject research
The final rule to the Common Rule became officially effective, implementing new standards and requirements for human subject research across federal agencies.
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| June 2018 |
Factfulness
Bill Gates offers free copies of Factfulness to all new graduates of U.S. colleges and universities, demonstrating his strong support for the book's message.
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| 2017 |
Society for Research Synthesis Methodology
Michael Borenstein becomes president of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology for the 2017-18 term
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| 2017 | The cross-cultural and multilingual research affinity group became the first group formally recognized by AAPOR. |
| 2017 |
Replication crisis
A large group of scientists and mathematicians signed the paper 'Redefine statistical significance', proposing to change the statistical significance threshold from p < 0.05 to p < 0.005 to improve research reproducibility.
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| 2017 |
Replication crisis
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation provided an additional $10 million in funding, further supporting efforts to improve scientific research methodology and reproducibility.
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| 2017 |
Replication crisis
Analysis revealed that most of 1,987 articles in water resources and management were not replicable due to insufficient online information sharing.
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