Question Wording Matters in Measuring Frequency of Fear of Crime: A Survey Experiment of the Anchoring Effect
For decades, fear of crime researchers have disagreed about how to best measure fear of crime. One approach proposed that measuring frequency of fear of crime within the past year has the highest validity. We argue that a frequency approach is vulnerable to the anchoring effect, in which participant...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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European Survey Research Association
2024-04-01
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| Series: | Survey Research Methods |
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/8259 |