Short is Better : Evaluating the Attentiveness of Online Respondents Through Screener Questions in a Real Survey Environment
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2019
Citazione:
Short is Better : Evaluating the Attentiveness of Online Respondents Through Screener Questions in a Real Survey Environment / M. Mancosu, R. Ladini, C. Vezzoni. - In: BULLETIN DE MÉTHODOLOGIE SOCIOLOGIQUE. - ISSN 0759-1063. - 141:1(2019 Jan), pp. 30-45. [10.1177/0759106318812788]
Abstract:
In online surveys, the control of respondents is almost absent: for this reason, the use of screener questions or “screeners” has been suggested to evaluate respondent attention. Screeners ask respondents to follow a certain number of instructions described in a text that contains a varying amount of misleading information. Previous work focused on ad-hoc experimental designs composed of a few questions, generally administered to small samples. Using an experiment inserted into an Italian National Election Study survey (N=3,000), we show that short screeners – namely, questions with a reduced amount of misleading information – should be preferred to longer screeners in evaluating the attentiveness of respondents. We also show there is no effect of screener questions in activating respondent attention.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
cognitive strain; online surveys; Screener; survey experiment
Elenco autori:
M. Mancosu, R. Ladini, C. Vezzoni
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