The many faces of GESIS
Vita
Çağla Yıldız is a research associate and PhD candidate in the Survey Design and Methodology department at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Her research focuses on data quality in online surveys, particularly satisficing response behavior and the detection of low-quality responses. During her M.A. in Political Science at the University of Mannheim, she gained research experience at the university’s Chairs of Political Economy and Econometrics and completed a traineeship as a data analyst at the European Parliament. Following her studies, she worked in project management at an international NGO before joining GESIS.At GESIS, she contributes to the BMBF-funded project “Competence Center for Data Quality in the Social Sciences” (KODAQS), supporting the development of the KODAQS Academy and Toolbox. In 2025, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research and presented her research at national and international conferences, including GOR 2025 in Berlin and AAPOR in St. Louis, U.S.
Service
Competence Center for Data Quality in the Social SciencesKODAQS
Research
- Measurement Errors in Surveys
- Survey Response Quality
- Satisficing Response Behaviors
Publications
Data/Software
Roth, Matthias, Nivedita Bhaktha, Matthias Blümke, Thomas Knopf, Fabienne Kraemer, Clemens Lechner, and Çağla E. Yıldız. 2024. resquin - response quality indicators. R-Package. doi: https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.resquin. https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/resquin/.
Presentation at a conference
Yıldız, Çağla E., Henning Silber, Jessica Daikeler, Fabienne Kraemer, and Evgenia Kapousouz. 2025. "Decoding Straightlining: The Role of Question Characteristics in Satisficing Response Behavior." General Online Research Conference 2025, Berlin (Germany), 2025-04-01.
Yıldız, Çağla E., Henning Silber, Jessica Daikeler, Fabienne Kraemer, and Evgenia Kapousouz. 2025. "Disentangling Plausible and Implausible Straightlining: From Matrix to Single-item Formats." AAPOR 2025: 80th Annual Conference "Reshaping Democracy’s Oracle: Transforming Polls, Surveys, and the Measurement of Public Opinion in the Age of AI", St. Louis Union Station Hotel, St. Louis, 2025-05-14.
Lecture
Yıldız, Çağla E.. 2024. "Measurement Dimension of Data Quality, Module: Terms, Concepts, Frameworks." Competence Center Data Quality in the Social Sciences Academy .