The Art of Asking Questions

By G. Katona, S. Payne. 1951

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

1. Morgaen L. Donaldson
2. Susan Johnson
3. D.walaa badawy
4. L. Burke
5. C. Gwaltney
6. N. Leidy
7. Mona L. Martin
8. E. Molsen

Citations in the corpus

• Leveraging Position Bias to Improve Peer Recommendation (2014, methodology): “Our approach exploits position bias: people pay more attention to items at the top of a web page or a list of items than those below them [6,7].”
• The myopia of crowds: Cognitive load and collective evaluation of answers on Stack Exchange (2016, unknown): “: people pay attention to the choices of others [29]. We nd, however, that this aect is not very signicant in Stack Exchange. Another important heuristic for online activity is \position bias" [24]: people pay more attention to items at the top of the list or the screen than those below [21]. P”
• Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users (2009, background): “Instructions about how to design questions will not be presented here, but it is critical that appropriate attention is paid to this process and that questionnaires are piloted before they are used (see [207] for more information about question design).”
• Technophilia vs. Technophobia: A Preliminary Look at Why Second-Language Teachers Do or Do Not Use Technology in Their Classrooms (2000, methodology): “I then conducted a semi-structured oral interview with each individual, based on a list of questions I had generated using the suggestions made by Payne (1951) about forming unbiased questions (see Appendix B).”
• The Price of Misassignment (2010, methodology): “We created our survey instrument by drawing on the School and Staffing Survey, earlier questionnaires designed by Liu (2004) and Kardos (2004), research into new teacher retention, and literature on survey question design (Dillman, 1978; Fowler, 1998, 2002; Payne, 1951) and reducing recall error (Su”
• Information is not a Virus, and Other Consequences of Human Cognitive Limits (2016, background): “As a result of this cognitive heuristic, known as “position bias” [33], people pay more attention to items at the top of a list than those in lower positions.”
• Content validity--establishing and reporting the evidence in newly developed patient-reported outcomes (PRO) instruments for medical product evaluation: ISPOR PRO Good Research Practices Task Force report: part 2--assessing respondent understanding. (2011, background): “[3] Payne S.”
• Position Bias in Multiple-Choice Questions (1984, methodology): “In the study by Payne (1951), alternative A was chosen by 27% of the respondents when it was placed among the top alternatives, by 17% when placed among the middle alternatives, and by 23% when placed among the bottom alternatives.”