The Impact of "No Opinion" Response Options on Data Quality: Non-Attitude Reduction or an Invitation to Satisfice?

By Jon A. Krosnick, Allyson L. Holbrook, Matthew K. Berent, Richard T. Carson, W. Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp, R. C. Mitchell, S. Presser, P. Ruud, V. K. Smith and 3 more. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Sensitive questions in surveys. (2007, methodology): “The one empirical assessment of this method (Krosnick et al., 2002) indicated that the sealed ballot box does not improve reporting.”
Satisficing Among Reluctant Respondents in a Cross-National Context (2010, methodology): “All the indicators used in the current analysis have been used as indicators of satisficing in previous studies, including ‘‘don’t know’’ (Krosnick et al. 2002), reversed straight-lining (Krosnick, Narayan, and Smith 1996), extreme responses (Belli, Herzog, and Van Hoewyk 1999), middle responses…”
Once a Criminal, Always a Criminal?: ‘Redeemability’ and the Psychology of Punitive Public Attitudes (2009, background): “We call this idea a “belief in redeemability”: Can people change or does criminality become essentially fixed after a certain age or a certain depth of experience (as in the idea of the ‘hardened criminal’)? Although this is a new construct, previous research on public attitudes regarding prisoners ”
Contemporary Guidance for Stated Preference Studies (2017, background): “…questions have found that applications including and excluding a no-answer option can yield comparable results, for example, those who choose the “no-answer” option answer “no” when this option is excluded (Carson, Hanemann, et al. 1998; Groothius and Whitehead 2002; Krosnick et al. 2002).”
Response Order Effects in Dichotomous Categorical Questions Presented Orally The Impact of Question and Respondent Attributes (2007, background): “…response order experiments ever examined to test the moderating impact of several factors implicated by satisficing theory (comprehension difficulty of the question, the number of prior questions answered, and respondents’ cognitive skills) separately and interactively (see Krosnick et al. 2002).”