{"id":1065,"date":"2018-11-06T13:50:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2018-11-06T14:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T14:01:49","slug":"a-personal-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/?p=1065","title":{"rendered":"A Personal Aside&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1066\" src=\"https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Hands-Up1-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Hands-Up1-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Hands-Up1-437x256.jpg 437w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Hands-Up1-564x331.jpg 564w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Hands-Up1.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the midterm elections this week, there are lots of issues in the spotlight. Other issues are getting less coverage, but are a serious challenge to respected and well-founded traditions.<\/p>\n<p>One of these is an initiative to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The census determines how political districts are mapped \u2014 and many immigrants are already saying they won\u2019t participate if asked about citizenship. As a researcher, I understand the importance of eliciting honest feedback from our respondents. Asking a citizenship question will negatively affect response rates, as posited by researchers versed in the topic. \u00a0(See this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/04\/us\/wilbur-ross-commerce-secretary.html\">New York Times article<\/a>.)\u00a0My own experience affirms this:\u00a0 research facilities are telling me they\u2019ve seen a decline in Hispanics willing to participate in research.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1071 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/woman-with-clipboard-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/woman-with-clipboard-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/woman-with-clipboard-437x510.jpg 437w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/woman-with-clipboard-564x658.jpg 564w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/woman-with-clipboard.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Fear silences their voices . . . and we need to hear.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The months ahead will invariably prove to be as tumultuous as the last 48. I can only hope we continue to fight for truth, rigor in our field, respect human rights, and promote the belief that there is value and beauty in our diversity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-780\" src=\"https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Alicias-Signature-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Alicias-Signature-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Alicias-Signature-768x464.png 768w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Alicias-Signature-437x264.png 437w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Alicias-Signature-564x341.png 564w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Alicias-Signature-860x520.png 860w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Alicias-Signature.png 961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 104px) 100vw, 104px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the midterm elections this week, there are lots of issues in the spotlight. Other issues are getting less coverage, but are a serious challenge to respected and well-founded traditions. One of these is an initiative to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The census determines how political districts are mapped \u2014 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alicias-notes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}