A Hard Test of Individual Heterogeneity in Response Scale Usage: Evidence From Qatar
A Hard Test of Individual Heterogeneity in Response Scale Usage: Evidence From Qatar
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DOI：
10.1093/ijpor/edw025
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发表时间：
2018-03-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Mitchell, Jocelyn S.
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作者：
Gengler, Justin J.;Mitchell, Jocelyn S.
纠正调查中响应类别阈值中人际差异的常见方法是使用锚定小插图。在这里，我们展示了锚定小插图在卡塔尔以及据我们所知在阿拉伯世界的首次应用的结果。我们在地理和实质上扩展了先前的发现，表明一系列社会和人口变量解释了经济福祉和政治效能领域中反应量表使用的重要变化，并且如果建模不当，这种变化会导致实质性误导性结论。卡塔尔异常同质的公民对反应规模异质性提出了独特的严峻考验，我们的结果表明，个人报告风格中潜在的令人困惑的差异比以前已知的更加普遍。
A common approach to correcting for interpersonal differences in response category thresholds in surveys is the use of anchoring vignettes. Here we present results from the first applications of anchoring vignettes in Qatar and, to our knowledge, the Arab world. We extend previous findings both geographically and substantively to show that a range of social and demographic variables account for important variation in response scale use in the domains of economic well-being and political efficacy, and that this variation leads to substantively misleading conclusions when not appropriately modeled. Qatar's exceptionally homogeneous citizenry presents a uniquely hard test of response scale heterogeneity, and our results suggest that potentially obfuscating differences in individual reporting styles are even more ubiquitous than previously known.