Knowledge Networks' Co-Founders Receive AAPOR's 2001 Innovators Award.Business/Technology Editors REPEATING...due to garble gar·ble tr.v. gar·bled, gar·bling, gar·bles 1. To mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible: She garbled all the historical facts. 2. in headline MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2001 The American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR AAPOR American Association for Public Opinion Research ) honored Norman H. Nie and Douglas Rivers with the 2001 Innovators Award at the 56th Annual Conference. The Knowledge Networks co-founders received this award for their development of a probability sampling method for Internet-based surveys in the United States. "It's a great honor to receive this award from AAPOR which is known for its commitment to the highest standards in survey research," stated Douglas Rivers, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Knowledge Networks. "This shows that AAPOR recognizes that Internet data collection can be high quality data collection when it's done (jargon) When It's Done - A manufacturer's non-answer to questions about product availability. This answer allows the manufacturer to pretend to communicate with their customers without setting themselves any deadlines or revealing how behind schedule the product really is. correctly." According to AAPOR, the award was presented to Nie and Rivers for their "efforts to extend the coverage of Web-based surveys to populations not previously connected to the Web (seeking) to remedy a severe weakness of Web surveys." Additionally, AAPOR recognized that their approach combines the traditional strengths of probability sampling with the speed and flexibility of the Internet. Nie and Rivers adopted probability sampling as the foundation of the research company they co-founded, Knowledge Networks. The company collects survey information via its Internet-enabled Panel, which is selected via Random Digit Dialing Random digit dialing (RDD) is a method for selecting people for involvement in telephone statistical surveys by generating telephone numbers at random. Random digit dialing has the advantage that it includes unlisted numbers that would be missed if the numbers were selected from a (RDD RDD Random Digit Dialing RDD RDF (Resource Description Framework) Declarative Description RDD Radiological Dispersal Device RDD Rights Data Dictionary RDD Radiological Dispersion Device RDD Respiratory Drug Delivery ). This ensures that the panel is a representative sample of all U.S. households, regardless of whether they own computers or use the Internet. Knowledge Networks equips them with an Internet appliance as well as free Internet access. In turn, the new panelist agrees to answer surveys periodically. In addition to its co-founders receiving the 2001 Innovators Award, Knowledge Networks received additional recognition when Josh Clinton, a Stanford University doctoral candidate, won the competition for best student paper, for his study examining the possibility of panel conditioning in the Knowledge Networks Panel. His study both examined the effect of attrition on the Knowledge Networks Panel, and conducted a cross-sectional experiment to determine the extent to which the panel tenure of respondents affects their behavior/attitudes. Clinton's study found no evidence of either systematic panel attrition among any population subgroup or any evidence that panelists who had been on the panel for more than six months behave or think differently from newly recruited panelists. About AAPOR The American Association for Public Opinion Research The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) is the leading professional organization of public opinion and survey research professionals in the U.S., with 1,900 members from academia, media, government, the non-profit sector and private industry. is the primary professional association representing public opinion researchers, and has a strong interest in protecting and strengthening the credibility of survey research. Founded in 1947, AAPOR is an organization of over 1,500 professionals from government agencies, colleges and universities, non-profit organizations, and commercial polling firms who are engaged or interested in the methods and applications of public opinion and survey research. About Norman H. Nie One of the nation's leading figures in survey research, quantitative social science and political science, Dr. Nie co-founded and is Chairman of SPSS A statistical package from SPSS, Inc., Chicago (www.spss.com) that runs on PCs, most mainframes and minis and is used extensively in marketing research. It provides over 50 statistical processes, including regression analysis, correlation and analysis of variance. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : SPSS), the leading vendor of statistical and survey software to the market research industry. For twenty-five years, Dr. Nie was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a Senior Study Director at the National Opinion Research Center. Currently he is also Chairman of Knowledge Networks, a Professor (Research) of Political Science at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Institute for Quantitative Studies in the Social Sciences. He received his B.A. from Washington University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. About Douglas Rivers Douglas Rivers is co-founder and CEO of Knowledge Networks, and a leading authority on the application of statistical methods to social science. He has been a faculty member at Harvard, Caltech, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX and, most recently, Stanford, where he is a Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute. He is a Director of Preview Systems (NASDAQ: PRVW PRVW Preview ), a leading provider of digital rights management solutions. Dr. Rivers holds a B.A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. About Knowledge Networks Knowledge Networks has created the first and only Web-based system that gathers data from a scientifically representative sample of the entire U.S. population on an on-going basis. The single-source information system is the first ever to provide continuous information on consumer behavior, attitudes, intentions and feelings. The company provides a broad array of services, including custom research studies backed by marketing science, qualitative and quantitative analyses, and online and offline methodologies. Knowledge Networks, a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , was founded in 1998 by two Stanford University political science professors, Norman Nie and Douglas Rivers. Knowledge Networks serves clients nationally from seven offices: Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Fairfield, CT, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Washington, D.C., and its corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, CA. www.KnowledgeNetworks.com. |
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