What explains why some survey respondents answer truthfully to a sensitive survey question, while others do not? This question is central to our understanding of a wide variety of attitudes, beliefs, ...

In order to test a hypothesis in traditional (“frequentist”) statistics, you posit an alternative called the “null hypothesis”. The null hypothesis should be chosen so as to represent the default ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The possibility of response bias in the answers to close-ended survey questions has been the source of considerable speculation, but little ...