POLSCI 2NN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Social Desirability Bias, Response Bias, Sampling Frame
27 Nov 2017
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Political science 2nn3 2017 lecture 7b surveys: the survey as an organic whole (question order effects) It is important to re ect upon the potential impact of early survey questions on later survey questions. For example, early questions can socialize a respondent with respect to later questions. They can lead a respondent to answer a later question in a way that they would not have: had that question been asked in isolation. Can you be con dent in the validity of the data you gathered through your. Do the answers actually indicate the variables (attitudes, opinions, beha. Consider: social desirability bias, questions about sensitive topics, administering the survey. How will you administer the survey once it is constructed. The different delivery methods have their own strengths and weaknesses. They suffer from different types of sampling bias: and different types of response bias, mailed surveys. Respondents can be truly anonymous and therefore may be more likely to answer sensitive questions honestly.
