What They Don't Know Can Hurt You
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6230127 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald B Rapoport (0000-0001-5598-7373, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 805 |
| Publication date | 1979-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2110808 |
| OpenAlex | W2319557841 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 6 |
Correlational techniques exclude Don't Know respondents by necessity. However, doing so makes the implicit assumption that excluded respondents are identical to non-DK respondents. As this paper and others have shown, the propensity to give DK responses is strongly related to sociological and psychological variables. By randomly assigning DK respondents, we can better compare correlations between subgroups with differing percentages of DK respondents. Doing so, we find that, contrary to Nie, et al., education is as strongly related to attitudinal constraint in 1968 as in 1956. Furthermore, expected relationships between knowledge and attitude stability, among adolescents, are substantially strengthened after randomly assigning DK respondents
Constraint (computer-aided design · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Mathematics · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
Survey Research
Sex Differences in Attitude Expression
Experiments in filtering political opinions
An Analysis of Anes Items and Their Use in the Construction of Political Knowledge Scales
Reconsidering the Measurement of Political Knowledge
Developing Valid Knowledge Scales
Measuring Political Sophistication
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1980 - 2013 (34) |
| Highly cited | No |