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The Impact of Repeated Lying on Survey Results

Chesney, Thomas; Penny, Kay

Authors

Thomas Chesney

Kay 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. (2013). The Impact of Repeated Lying on Survey Results. SAGE Open, 3(1), 215824401247234. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012472345

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Jan 16, 2013
Publication Date Mar 6, 2013
Deposit Date Apr 29, 2015
Publicly Available Date Apr 29, 2015
Journal SAGE Open
Print ISSN 2158-2440
Electronic ISSN 2158-2440
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 3
Issue 1
Pages 215824401247234
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
Contract Date Apr 29, 2015

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