Acquiescence Bias

See: Response Bias, Respondent, Survey Question, Agreement Answer, Disagreement Answer.

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References

2011

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquiescence_bias
  • QUOTE: Acquiescence bias is a category of response bias in which respondents to a survey have a tendency to agree with all the questions or to indicate a positive connotation. Acquiescence is sometimes referred to as "yah-saying" and is the tendency of a respondent to agree with a statement when in doubt. This particularly is in the case of surveys or questionnaires that employ truisms, such as: "It is better to give than to receive" or "Never a lender nor a borrower be". …

    … One approach to dealing with acquiescence responding on surveys and questionnaires is to employ a balance of positively- and negatively-keyed items in terms of the intended content.

2008

• (Upton & Cook, 2008) ⇒ Graham Upton, and Ian Cook. (2008). “A Dictionary of Statistics, 2nd edition revised." Oxford University Press. ISBN:0199541450

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