The answer is A. Increase in hypertension and cholesterol. Caretakers for individuals with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related diseases are more likely to have increased hypertension and cholesterol than their peers, increasing their own risk of developing the disease myumi.ch/e76jJ

The #FridayQuiz is back! June is #Alzheimers and #BrainAwareness month. Which modifiable risk factors are family caretakers for those with Alzheimer’s and dementia-related conditions more likely to have?

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The answer is A. Financial hardship. It has been found that in the years leading up to an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, it is common for those with the disease to experience financial adversity myumi.ch/dAek7

"At the meeting of the Regents on June 21, 1946 (p. 418), approval was given to the establishment of the Social Science Surveys Project. The Board changed the name of this project to the Survey Research Center, to be administered under the direction of Dr. Rensis Likert": myumi.ch/J4Wm8

The #FridayQuiz is back, this time on a #Monday! June is #Alzheimers and #BrainAwareness month. What adverse experience is associated with Alzheimer’s years prior to clinical diagnosis?

The answer is B. Social and racial disparities can influence health outcomes and memory function. The degree to which higher education attainment impacts cognitive function for those with Alzheimer’s differs between white and Black individuals with the disease. myumi.ch/WDQV4

Cannabis use is prevalent among young adults - regular use increases risk for problems, but few seek treatment. A personalized just-in-time adaptive intervention is a promising solution, with messages increasing engagement, warranting further refinement to optimize this intervention myumi.ch/39j6n

Contrast sensitivity is a critical but underused measure of vision, linked to falls and loss of independence in older adults. Using @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social, Shu Yu et al identify a threshold where older adults begin experiencing visual disability—a benchmark for interpreting measures. myumi.ch/NXM3G

The #FridayQuiz is back! June is #Alzheimers and #BrainAwareness month. Why does higher educational attainment not provide equal cognitive benefits across all social groups with Alzheimer's?

Crises like COVID-19 can disrupt care networks—but their structure matters. Dense, well-connected networks with close relatives can better coordinate support and stay resilient under stress. Building bonding capital may help protect critical care. myumi.ch/yknw2

The latest issue of Serving the Public Interest: Insights & Innovations into the Human Lifetime is out! myumi.ch/39jWz We feature Josh Ehrlich whose interdisciplinary research is focused on global population aging and later-life sensory health (vision, hearing, etc.)

Deji Suolang graduated spring 2026 with her Ph.D. in Survey and Data Science. @bradytwest.bsky.social is a Collegiate Research Professor in the Survey Research Center. Here they discuss the importance of the mentorship relationship both for the mentee and for the mentor.

In addition to assessing mental health disorder prevalence rates, the surveys collect contextual data surrounding mental health, like the timing and sequencing of symptoms, physical health conditions, the use of mental health services and treatment, or, in many cases, the barriers to seeking care.

Congratulations to @bradytwest.bsky.social! West was named a Collegiate Research Professor by @umich.edu OVPR. This is one of the highest honors bestowed on research faculty. West's work includes measurement error, selection bias, interviewer variance & regression models myumi.ch/NX18G

🧪Using LASI-DAD, Jennifer A. Smith et al. find DNAm-based epigenetic clocks—biomarkers of biological aging—may help identify neurodegeneration risk in low- and middle-income countries, where links to blood-based biomarkers remain understudied. myumi.ch/8J1ng

Using Current Population Survey data (1988–2023), Helen Levy finds persistent Black–White gaps in employer-sponsored health insurance that differ sharply by sex, underscoring the importance of analyzing race and sex jointly rather than pooling groups or focusing only on men myumi.ch/G7zZ7

We are seeking at Research Administration Associate, a position located in the SRC Director's Office Services, Training, Administration and Research Team. Associate-level Research Administrators work closely with & under the mentorship of highly skilled research administrators at SRC myumi.ch/NX1e9

Exposure to industrial air toxicants are a leading health risk in the US. @reeddeangelis.bsky.social & @landscapeslab.bsky.social examine the extent to which industrial air toxicant exposure accounts for individual mortality risk throughout the adult life course myumi.ch/7JAME

📉 It's a busy last day at #AAPOR2026 - here is your pre-travel #MomentOfZen

📉@bradytwest.bsky.social will participate in the rountable Measuring Cognitive Load in Surveys with Behavioral and Sensor Data. Attendees will gain practical guidance on integrating multimodal data, validating behavioral indicators, and addressing ethical and technical challenges. #AAPOR2026

📉 As more adults need help with daily personal activities, debates grow over how care responsibilities should be shared among families, government & nonprofit organizations. Effy Tang will present full descriptive findings and multivariable models of group differences #AAPOR2026

📉Social media can be a timely and relatively inexpensive source of qualitative data about public opinion, but it is under used because it is massive, making manual analysis unrealistic. Fred Conrad et al explore approaches to using LLMs to handle these huge datasets #AAPOR2026

📉 Understanding consent behavior can improve data linkage cooperation, communication protocols, linkage rates & representativeness. Shengkun Liu, Henning Silber & @yajuansi.bsky.social use @umpsid.bsky.social to offer insights for large-scale household panel studies and beyond. #AAPOR2026

📉Mick Couper et al will present selected results from our analyses and discuss the implications in terms of both data collection protocols and substantive analyses in their paper Sample Loss and Participation Bias In a Study Linking Financial Information to Survey Data #AAPOR2026

📉LLMs offer new methodological opportunities. Mao Li & Fred Conrad show LLM-based multi-agent simulations can be a complementary tool for opinion research, foregrounding process validity by making reasoning trajectories observable in ways standard survey instruments alone rarely can #AAPOR2026

📉Declining survey response rates mean we need to better understand the factors that motivate individuals to participate. Henning Silber et al investigate self-reported participation motives among young adults, using data from a 2025 web-based survey of 10K U-M undergraduates. #AAPOR2026

📉@rnishimura.bsky.social is moderating the session Improving Data Quality in Probability and Nonprobability Samples #AAPOR2026

📉Failure to account for varying design features could introduce bias into estimates and incorrect population inferences based on combined datasets. @cwengstr.bsky.social & @bradytwest.bsky.social discuss trade-offs and practical applications of two methods for combining survey estimates #AAPOR2026

📉Good morning #AAPOR2026! It's a busy last day of presentations, posters, and roundtables in #LosAngeles. To see a full schedule of SRC presentations, visit: myumi.ch/e7kkQ

📉@jameswagner254.bsky.social presents Designing Experiments for Complex Recruitment Protocols: A Case Study from the National Dementia Workforce Study #AAPOR2026 @dtmaust.bsky.social @ndws.bsky.social

📉 It's a busy second day at #AAPOR2026 - here is your Thursday afternoon #MomentOfZen

Our @um-src.bsky.social super-star, no introductions needed, @bradytwest.bsky.social delivering his presentation on how to improve survey data integration between probability and non-probability samples at #AAPOR #AAPOR26 #AAPOR2026

📉Chendi Zhao presents Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Costs? the Effects of Offering Increased Incentives to Difficult Respondents on Future Participation in Panel Surveys, co-authored by Sergio Martinez, Heather Schroeder & @bradytwest.bsky.social #AAPOR2026

Sunghee Lee, Stephanie Morales, and Mengyao Hu address the current state of LLMs for translating English questionnaires into multiple languages spoken by populations with limited English proficiency in the U.S. #AAPOR2026

📉@bradytwest.bsky.social presents his work with @randridge.bsky.social: Improved Mass Imputation in Probability Samples Via Adjustment of Imputation Models Based on Non-Probability Samples for Selection Bias #AAPOR2026

📉@rnishimura.bsky.social highlights the strengths and challenges of Address-Based Sampling methodology in urban areas and offers practical recommendations for improving ABS frame coverage for surveys in this context #AAPOR2026

Great #PublicOpinionResearch requires great #methodology. SRC methodologists have you covered! Visit myumi.ch/e7kkQ to see our full slate of researchers at hashtag#AAPOR2026.

📉@jameswagner254.bsky.social is chair and moderator & Stephanie Chardoul is presenting at the roundtable Survey Costs: An Update from the Recent Workshop #AAPOR2026

📉Good morning #AAPOR2026! It's a busy second day of presentations, posters, and roundtables in #LosAngeles. To see a full schedule of SRC presentations, visit: myumi.ch/e7kkQ

📉Sergio Martinez' paper, Improving Measures of Non-Ignorable Selection Bias In Nonprobability Samples through Flexible Modeling and Benchmark Uncertainty, expands the practical utility of PPMM-based diagnostics and offers a more robust foundation for inference from nonprobability samples #AAPOR

📉Deji Suolang's paper, Extending Imputation-Based Data Integration to Non-Probability Samples, demonstrates a practical approach for obtaining population-level estimates of outcomes that are otherwise difficult to measure directly in more representative samples #AAPOR2026

📉Chendi Zhao's paper, Balancing Fairness and Disclosure Limitation When Creating Synthetic Data for Survey Research, provides guidance for data producers & statistical agencies seeking to release synthetic datasets that are secure, analytically useful, and fair across diverse populations. #AAPOR2026

📉@bradytwest.bsky.social is moderating the session Innovations in Data Integration and Preference Modeling #AAPOR2026

📉Silicon sampling attempts to replace human participant responses by predicting responses for LLM-generated persona. Sunghee Lee presents work evaluating the quality of silicon sample data from cross-cultural and multi-lingual research perspectives #AAPOR2026

📉Do Puerto Rico referendum vote shares reflect true public preferences—or participation bias? Felix Baez-Santiago uses PR-POL, a new probability survey of adults in Puerto Rico, to assess representativeness and show how surveys can validate or challenge self-selected political indicators. #AAPOR2026

📉 It's a busy first day at #AAPOR2026 - here is your Wednesday afternoon #MomentOfZen

📉 Yao Sun presents How Do LLMs Feel What Machine Learning Tools See? Safety and Safety Perception through Street View Images In Detroit, Michigan at poster session 1 at #AAPOR2026

📉@bradytwest.bsky.social is taking part in this roundtable "Toward a Framework for Balancing Respondent Protections and Data Needs" which will provide an overview of principles recently enunciated by the US Census Bureau’s multidisciplinary “Disclosure Avoidance Futures” working group #AAPOR2026

📉@rnishimura.bsky.social is moderating the session Data Science & Survey Estimation #AAPOR2026