CRIM 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Likert Scale, Fourth Doctor, Questionnaire Construction
1 Sep 2016
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Systematic way to a sample from a pop. Recall error, reporting fabricated offences, reluctant to disclose illegal behavior. Public views about sentencing polices, gun control, police performance. Conduct targeted victim surveys before and after introducing policy change: designing the data collection instrument guidelines for asking questions. Open ended questions respondent provide his or her own answers. Closed ended questions respondent select an answer among list provided. Likert scale strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree. Exhaustive include all possible responses (other: please specify____) Mutually exclusive should not feel compelled to select more than one. Bias: property of question that encourages respondents to answer in particular way. Do not ask questions that encourage a certain answer. Frame as respondent as a representative of people like you . Disadvantages guidelines (3): social desirability guidelines (4): use existing measures response formats examples of scales response formats. How do you feel about your life as a whole? .
