Acquiescence Bias

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



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.[1][2] 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.

  1. Watson, Dorothy. (1992). Correcting for Acquiescent Response Bias in the Absence of a Balanced Scale An Application to Class Consciousness Sociological Methods Research August 1992 vol. 21 no. 1 52-88. Template:Doi
  2. Moss, Simon. (2008). Acquiescence bias [1]

2008