Survey research - Survey bias

3 important questions on Survey research - Survey bias

How to deal with non-response error?

 Substituting another person for the missing participant
 Creating a non-response sample and analyzing/weighting results afterwards
 Establishing reminders and/or call-back procedures

Voluntary response bias:

 occurs when persons can choose on their own to participate in the sample (quite often in case of controversial topics)
 tend to over-represent individuals who have strong opinions
 samples are always invalid and cannot be recovered

Positive and negative affect:

 Impact of survey respondents’ mood on their evaluations:
  • Positive affect refers to positive emotions and expression, including cheerfulness, pride, enthusiasm, energy, and joy
  • Negative affect refers to negative emotions and expression, which includes sadness, disgust, lethargy, fear, and distress 

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