How you measured the AUD symptom could have a dramatic impact on the psychometrics, both in terms of difficulties (e.g. what severity endorsing the item reflected) and discrimination (how strongly endorsement was related to the daily AUD construct).

This gif shows (pink) these differences.

7/19

Now taking into account age *in isolation* is no problem at all. We can simply do that by comparing people of the same age across survey years. The resulting pictures matches what I've broadly found in the literature (loneliness has increased among young people, but not among old people).>

And that’s a problem from a measurement perspective because if you ask people mostly about behaviours that rarely happen, the scores on the scales end up being really low, and psychometrically uninformative!

(10/13)

pdsoros.org US-based fellowship for immigrants & children of immigrants. Seems to be the only one open for post-baccs that isn’t restricted to a specific field of study