The Importance of Replicating a Failure to Replicate

Order Effects on Abortion Items

Bibliographic Data

ID6372645
AuthorsGeorge F Bishop, Robert W Oldendick, Alfred J Tuchfarber
Year1985
Volume49
Issue1
Pages105
Publication date1985-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePublic Opinion Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-362X • E-ISSN: 1537-5331
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/268904
OpenAlexW2076174704
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited1

A failure to replicate a previously demonstrated order effect on responses to questions about abortion led to a second experiment which was designed to test the hypothesis that the failure was due to a change in the question context which had immediately preceded the abortion items in the original experiments by Schuman, et al. Unlike the results of the first experiment, the results of this second experiment showed that the order effect reported by Schuman and his associates does replicate. In addition, the data indicate that context may condition the magnitude of this order effect. The authors also suggest that the effect may be due to the implicit contrast between the reasons given for abortion by the items when they are asked in one order rather than the other

Abortion · Biology · Context (archaeology · Economics · Order (exchange · Replicate · Statistics · Test (biology · Child and Animal Learning Development · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Mathematics · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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