Bias
When a researcher has specific expectations or beliefs, leading them to study only certain variables over others.
What is Researcher Bias?
A test run, usually given to friends and colleagues, for a newly designed questionnaire to determine its validity
What is a Pilot Test?
It involves gathering information about 1+ groups of people by asking them questions and tabulating their answers.
What is Survey Research?
Giving some members of a population a higher/lower chance of being sampled than others, leading to a non-representative population sample.
What is Sampling Bias?
The language that is important to use in a survey: clear and straight-forward.
What is Simple/Unambiguous Language?
It examines the extent to which differences in one variable are associated with the differences in another variable.
What is Correlational Research?
Because we rely on "self-reporting" data, people may describe their beliefs/experiences inaccurately.
What is Response Bias?
A researcher must check if the respondents are giving socially acceptable answers instead of accurate ones.
What is Checking for Consistency?
The type of research design that is as OBJECTIVE as possible, has a pre-specified focus and is conducted by studying a person or thing.
What is an Observation Study?
The ways in which particular measurement instruments slant the obtained results in one direction or another. An example could be leading questions in a survey.
What is Instrumentation Bias?
This type of question asks people to respond with lengthy answers, which can be too mentally exhausting for a respondent and should be avoided in your questionnaire.
What are Open-Ended Questions?
What is a Developmental Design?
In 1998, these two researchers suggested several strategies for identifying bias.
Who are Rogelberg and Luong?
This is the kind of question that assumes the respondent has a certain trait or belief. For example: "How many cigarettes do you smoke a day?"
What is an Implicit Assumption?
Developed in the 1930's, this rating system measures people's opinions to a statement using a range between "Strongly Disagree" and "Strongly Agree"
What is the Likert Scale?