The Science of Asking Questions

By N. C. Schaeffer, S. Presser. 2003

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics, Sociology and Political Science

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Cause by Omission and Norm: Not Watering Plants (2017, background): “8 For detailed discussions, see Clark and Schober [1992], Schwarz [1994], Schaeffer and Presser [2003], and Cullen [2010].”
Survey-Driven Romanticism (2010, background): “It is on this self-consciously Gricean model which survey researchers have developed the " science of asking questions " (Schaeffer and Presser 2003).”
“My Questionnaire is Too Long!” The assessments of motivational-affective constructs with three-item and single-item measures (2014, methodology): “…(also included in the full scale and short form) was constructed with the aim of directly and maximally representing the essence of the academic anxiety definition (i.e., feelings of worry, nervousness, and uneasiness) using words that all respon dents could understand (Schaeffer & Presser, 2003).”
Discrimination and racial disparities in health: evidence and needed research (2008, unknown): “In the assessment of multiple phenomena , survey methodologists find that multiple questions about components of a phenomenon will provide a more accurate level than a few global questions (Schaeffer and Presser 2003).”
Research into Questionnaire Design: A Summary of the Literature (2010, background): “Rockwood et al. -1997; Tourangeau et al. 2000; Schaeffer & Presser 2006), as well as the metaanalyses of Sudman and Bradburn (1974) and Bhandari and Wagner (2006), show that the invalidity of responses due to cognitive overload increases where recall of events is involved that have occurred not in…”
Cronbach's Alpha: Review of Limitations and Associated Recommendations (2010, background): “How to minimize the occurrence of such unintended variations has remained a source of concern for psychological researchers and practitioners (Clark & Watson, 1995; Krosnick, 1999; Schaeffer & Presser, 2003; Schwarz, 1999; Schwarz & Oyserman, 2001).”
Prevalence of nonsuicidal self-injury in nonclinical samples: systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression. (2014, background): “Participants should be provided with an explicit definition of NSSI (Schaeffer & Presser, 2003) which includes the terms nonsuicidal, direct, and intentional.”
Studying users' computer security behavior: A health belief perspective (2009, methodology): “Numeric labels were used for each item, but verbal labels were provided in the examples found in the instructions to help all respondents interpret the scales consistently and to produce more reliable measurement [42].”
Workplace incivility: A review of the literature and agenda for future research (2016, background): “Usually, researchers decide on a specific reference period based on the frequency of the event that is being rated or considered (Igou, Bless, & Schwarz, 2002; Schaeffer & Presser, 2003).”
Evaluating Recommender Systems with User Experiments (2015, background): “• Schaeffer and Presser, “The Science of Asking Questions” [102]: An in-depth treatment of how to write survey questions.”
The effect of rating scale format on response styles: the number of response categories and response catgory labels (2010, background): “First, different response scale formats imply differences in the perceived meaning and salience of response categories, thus changing the chance of their being selected (Arce-Ferrer, 2006; Schaeffer & Presser, 2003).”