Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13015809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ariel White (0000-0002-9409-6765, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Anton Strezhnev (0000-0001-6847-8340, Harvard University), C Lucas (0000-0001-8551-6935, Harvard University), Dominika Kruszewska (Harvard University), Claire Huff (0000-0002-7124-1923, Harvard University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 56-67 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Experimental Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2052-2630 • E-ISSN: 2052-2649 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/xps.2017.25 |
| OpenAlex | W2791698792 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 32 |
Prior research demonstrates that responses to surveys can vary depending on the race, gender, or ethnicity of the investigator asking the question. We build upon this research by empirically testing how information about researcher identity in online surveys affects subject responses. We do so by conducting an experiment on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in which we vary the name of the researcher in the advertisement for the experiment and on the informed consent page in order to cue different racial and gender identities. We fail to reject the null hypothesis that there is no difference in how respondents answer questions when assigned to a putatively black/white or male/female researcher
Ethnic group · Identity (music · Library science · Null hypothesis · Political science · Race (biology · Respondent · Sociology · Statistics · Subject (documents · White (mutation · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Mathematics · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |