Thomas Chesney
The Impact of repeated lying on survey results
Chesney, Thomas; Penny, Kay I
Authors
Kay I Penny
Abstract
We study the effects on results of participants completing a survey more than once, a phenomenon known as farming. Using data from a real social science study as a baseline, three strategies that participants might use to farm are studied by Monte Carlo simulation. Findings show that farming influences survey results and can cause both statistical hypotheses testing Type I (false positive) and Type II (false negative) errors in unpredictable ways.
Citation
Chesney, T., & Penny, K. I. (2013). The Impact of repeated lying on survey results. SAGE Open, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012472345
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Online Publication Date | Jan 16, 2013 |
| Publication Date | Jan 1, 2013 |
| Deposit Date | Apr 29, 2015 |
| Publicly Available Date | Apr 29, 2015 |
| Print ISSN | 2158-2440 |
| Electronic ISSN | 2158-2440 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications |
| Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012472345 |
| Keywords | Survey results; farming; Monte Carlo simulation; statistical hypotheses testing Type I (false positive); Type II (false negative); lying; |
| Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7884 |
| Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244012472345 |
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