The 2025 Trevor Levere Best Paper Prize goes to the team of the paper "The drop and the metric system: how an unruly unit survived revolutions"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00033790.2026.2636886
This is really great news and is for an excellent paper that I highly recommend reading!
Working myself in an area that has at best non-standard measurement units (at worst, some people would argue, is not measurement at all), I found this very interesting.
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Thanks to Penn State for hosting!
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This paper suggests that the #HoNOS has limited utility for capturing psychopathology or monitoring progress in forensic outpatient settings
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24732850.2026.2636142
Some items differentiated btw diagnostic groups, but limited evidence for use of 1 (to 3) summary scores
I admit having limited love for the instrument since our work on its use in secondary #MentalHealth care https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10488-019-00958-7
More details, CHE working paper 137, pdf
https://www.york.ac.uk/media/che/documents/papers/researchpapers/CHERP137_mental_health_data_episodic_payment.pdf
Beaufort’s Wind Scale makes me want to add Likert levels.
Rate your agreement with “…”:
⚪️ slightly agree
⚪️ moderately agree
⚪️ FRESH agree
⚪️ strongly agree
⚪️ GALE FORCE agree
⚪️ VIOLENTLY agree
🔘 HURRICANE Agree
Just came across this blast from the past (2013):
https://rdcu.be/e7TDY
- daily assessments
- ordinal data multilevel #measurement
- DIF analysis
Couched as a preliminary investigation and pilot study, the analytic approach still sets a bar reached rarely by studies with such data.
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“Instead of paying humans to join focus groups and complete surveys, #Auru uses thousands of #AI agents, or bots, to simulate human responses. It feeds #demographic and psychographic information into its models to create human profiles that match clients’ needs, and the results those bots spit out are being used for product #development, #pricing, identifying new customers and political #polling.”
Researchers have warned about the inaccuracies of treating #LLMs as human proxies (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11297-5), but I wouldn’t be surprised #languageModels beat #qualitative interpretation of non-representative focus groups.
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A #SysReview exploring impacts of community-based interventions for adults with #multimorbidity on clinical and patient-reported outcomes (25 studies):
https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/1/e004156
Quick comparison of identified outcomes with the two central #CoreOutcomeSets 👇
Having seen many (and done some) of these proof-of-concept studies myself, let's me wonder:
Are there still too few well-developed systems available?
Maybe someone reads this and feels we can get a collection of these together so that others can read up on them?
Jan R. Boehnke
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
GESIS