Paying Attention to Inattentive Survey Respondents
Paying Attention to Inattentive Survey Respondents
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DOI：
10.1017/pan.2018.57
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发表时间：
2019-04-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Li, Yimeng
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作者：
Alvarez, R. Michael;Atkeson, Lonna Rae;Li, Yimeng
注意力在调查回答中重要吗？更专注的调查参与者是否给出了更高质量的回答？利用最近一项在线调查的数据，我们发现了使用指示回答项目识别注意力不集中的受访者，我们证明了忽视注意力提供了对批判性政治态度和行为分布的有偏见的描述。我们表明，这种偏见发生在典型的封闭式问题和列表实验的背景下。注意力不集中的受访者很常见，在年轻人和受教育程度较低的人群中更为普遍。那些没有通过陷阱问题的人以独特的方式与调查工具互动：他们花更少的时间来回答；更有可能报告无态度；并且在他们报告的选择中显示出较低的一致性。注意力不集中并不是完全随机发生的，如果不能适当地考虑到这一点，可能会导致对敏感和更平淡的关键政治态度和行为的普遍程度的不准确估计。
Does attentiveness matter in survey responses? Do more attentive survey participants give higher quality responses? Using data from a recent online survey that identified inattentive respondents using instructed response items, we demonstrate that ignoring attentiveness provides a biased portrait of the distribution of critical political attitudes and behavior. We show that this bias occurs in the context of both typical closed ended questions and in list experiments. Inattentive respondents are common and are more prevalent among the young and less educated. Those who do not pass the trap questions interact with the survey instrument in distinctive ways: they take less time to respond; are more likely to report nonattitudes; and display lower consistency in their reported choices. Inattentiveness does not occur completely at random and failing to properly account for it may lead to inaccurate estimates of the prevalence of key political attitudes and behaviors, of both sensitive and more prosaic nature.