Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys
Prior research demonstrates that responses to surveys can vary depending on the race, gender, or ethnicity of the investigator asking the question. We build upon this research by empirically testing how information about researcher identity in <jats:italic>online surveys</jats:italic> af...
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| author | White, Ariel R. Strezhnev, Anton Lucas, Christopher Kruszewska, Dominika Huff, Connor |
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| description | Prior research demonstrates that responses to surveys can vary depending on the race, gender, or ethnicity of the investigator asking the question. We build upon this research by empirically testing how information about researcher identity in <jats:italic>online surveys</jats:italic> affects subject responses. We do so by conducting an experiment on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in which we vary the name of the researcher in the advertisement for the experiment and on the informed consent page in order to cue different racial and gender identities. We fail to reject the null hypothesis that there is no difference in how respondents answer questions when assigned to a putatively black/white or male/female researcher. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1287432022-09-28T10:13:51Z Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys White, Ariel R. Strezhnev, Anton Lucas, Christopher Kruszewska, Dominika Huff, Connor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science Prior research demonstrates that responses to surveys can vary depending on the race, gender, or ethnicity of the investigator asking the question. We build upon this research by empirically testing how information about researcher identity in <jats:italic>online surveys</jats:italic> affects subject responses. We do so by conducting an experiment on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in which we vary the name of the researcher in the advertisement for the experiment and on the informed consent page in order to cue different racial and gender identities. We fail to reject the null hypothesis that there is no difference in how respondents answer questions when assigned to a putatively black/white or male/female researcher. 2020-12-08T14:55:34Z 2020-12-08T14:55:34Z 2018-03 2020-06-15T16:57:18Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128743 White, Ariel et al. "Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys." Journal of Experimental Political Science 5, 1 (March 2018): 56 - 67 © 2018 The Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association en http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2017.25 Journal of Experimental Political Science Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Cambridge University Press (CUP) Other repository |
| spellingShingle | White, Ariel R. Strezhnev, Anton Lucas, Christopher Kruszewska, Dominika Huff, Connor Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys |
| title | Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys |
| title_full | Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys |
| title_fullStr | Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys |
| title_full_unstemmed | Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys |
| title_short | Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys |
| title_sort | investigator characteristics and respondent behavior in online surveys |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128743 |
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