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| Originalsprache | Englisch |
|---|---|
| Seiten (von - bis) | 37-50 |
| Seitenumfang | 14 |
| Fachzeitschrift | Survey research methods |
| Jahrgang | 17 |
| Ausgabenummer | 1 |
| Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 11 Apr. 2023 |
| Extern publiziert | Ja |
Abstract
A crucial assumption of survey measurements is that respondents carefully perceive, reflect upon, and provide an answer to a given question and that this process is independent of respondents’ memory of their responses to previous questions. A violation of this assumption may considerably affect parameter estimations. To shed light on such memory effects, we investigate the ability of respondents to remember their answers to three types of survey questions (beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors) within one wave of a probability-based online panel survey. We find that respondents’ ability to correctly reproduce their answers after 20 minutes is overall high and differs across questions on beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. Furthermore, respondents who gave extreme answers are more likely to correctly reproduce their response than respondents who gave non-extreme answers.
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in: Survey research methods, Jahrgang 17, Nr. 1, 11.04.2023, S. 37-50.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Memory Effects
T2 - A Comparison Across Question Types
AU - Rettig, Tobias
AU - Blom, Annelies G.
AU - Höhne, Jan Karem
N1 - Funding Information: The GIP is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Collaborative Research Center 884 (SFB 884; Project Number 139943784; Project Z1).
PY - 2023/4/11
Y1 - 2023/4/11
N2 - A crucial assumption of survey measurements is that respondents carefully perceive, reflect upon, and provide an answer to a given question and that this process is independent of respondents’ memory of their responses to previous questions. A violation of this assumption may considerably affect parameter estimations. To shed light on such memory effects, we investigate the ability of respondents to remember their answers to three types of survey questions (beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors) within one wave of a probability-based online panel survey. We find that respondents’ ability to correctly reproduce their answers after 20 minutes is overall high and differs across questions on beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. Furthermore, respondents who gave extreme answers are more likely to correctly reproduce their response than respondents who gave non-extreme answers.
AB - A crucial assumption of survey measurements is that respondents carefully perceive, reflect upon, and provide an answer to a given question and that this process is independent of respondents’ memory of their responses to previous questions. A violation of this assumption may considerably affect parameter estimations. To shed light on such memory effects, we investigate the ability of respondents to remember their answers to three types of survey questions (beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors) within one wave of a probability-based online panel survey. We find that respondents’ ability to correctly reproduce their answers after 20 minutes is overall high and differs across questions on beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. Furthermore, respondents who gave extreme answers are more likely to correctly reproduce their response than respondents who gave non-extreme answers.
KW - extreme responses
KW - measurement error
KW - memory effects
KW - online panel
KW - repeated measurement
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U2 - 10.18148/srm/2023.v17i1.7903
DO - 10.18148/srm/2023.v17i1.7903
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VL - 17
SP - 37
EP - 50
JO - Survey research methods
JF - Survey research methods
SN - 1864-3361
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