Straightlining in Web survey panels over time

By Matthias Schonlau, V. Toepoel. 2015

105 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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1. Dominik J. Leiner
2. B. Roberts

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1. Dominik J. Leiner
2. P. D. Harms
3. J. DeSimone
4. M. Chmielewski
5. Sarah C. Kucker
6. Minseop Kim
7. T. Beehr

Citations in the corpus

• Too Fast, too Straight, too Weird: Non-Reactive Indicators for Meaningless Data in Internet Surveys (2019, background): “Annoyed respondents typically paint straight vertical lines (the same response option is chosen for each item of a scale, also known as straightlining, (Schonlau & Toepoel, 2015), diagonal lines, and a combination of both (figure 1).”
• Response Speed and Response Consistency as Mutually Validating Indicators of Data Quality in Online Samples (2017, background): “These effects are further accentuated by the tendencies for careless respondents to provide the same rating to many consecutive items (Schonlau & Toepoel, 2015; Zhang & Conrad, 1 Department of Management, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA Corresponding Author: Dustin Wood, Department of…”