Stanley Presser, a social scientist, is a Distinguished University Professor at the

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, where he teaches in the Sociology Department and the

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(JPSM). He co-founded JPSM with colleagues at the

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and Westat, Inc., and served as its first director. He has also been editor of ''

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'' and president of the

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. Presser did his doctoral work at the

, working with Howard Schuman on a

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grant studying question wording and attitude surveys. Presser has done basic research on various aspects of survey measurement and survey nonresponse, as well as applied research using surveys to measure the value of public goods. His research is reported in many journal articles and several books, including ''Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys: Experiments on Question Form, Wording, and Context'' (with H. Schuman); ''Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire'' (with J. M. Converse); ''Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires'' (with J. Rothgeb, M. Couper, J. Lessler, E. Martin, J. Martin, and E. Singer), and ''Valuing Oil Spill Prevention'' (with R. Carson, M. Conaway, M. Hanemann, J. Krosnick, and R. Mitchell). He is a fellow of the

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, and of the

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and has received the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for a career of outstanding contributions to methodology in sociology (from the

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's Methodology Section), the AAPOR Award for exceptionally distinguished achievement (from the American Association for Public Opinion Research), and – with Howard Schuman—the Philip E. Converse Award for outstanding book published at least 5 years before (from the

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's Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Section).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Presser, Stanley 1950 births Living people American sociologists Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the American Statistical Association Survey methodologists University of Maryland, College Park faculty