SOC SCI 3A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Response Bias, Leading Question
26 Oct 2016
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Answer people give are influenced by something else. Should laws eliminate groups to give huge sums of money to candidates. Trying to get people to say no. Asking the same question in a different way. Both questions are guilty of response bias. Trying to get people to answer in a certain way. This is the issue with response bias. If you word the question in a certain way the way people answer. You can skew the data in a favorable way. People tend to vote for the first name they see. The names must be ordered differently for each voter. Here"s a graph with this shape, and here"s a graph with this shape, etc. But we don"t know, if we don"t know the units/labels. = significance (what gives you the p value) P value tells us if the variation could be due to chance error. 1: highly likely caused by chance error. Random variation that occurs when doing an experiment.
