Generalization of Classic Question Order Effects Across Cultures
Questionnaire design is routinely guided by classic experiments on question form, wording, and context conducted decades ago. This article explores whether two question order effects (one due to the norm of evenhandedness and the other due to subtraction or perceptual contrast) appear in surveys of...
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ftnorce:oai:norceresearch.brage.unit.no:11250/2725636 2023-05-15T16:50:05+02:00 Generalization of Classic Question Order Effects Across Cultures Stark, Tobias Silber, Henning Krosnick, Jon A. Blom, Annelies G. Aoyagi, Midori Belchior, Ana Bosnjak, Michael Clement, Sanne Lund John, Melvin Jónsdóttir, Guðbjörg Andrea Lawson, Karen Lynn, Peter Martinsson, Johan Shamshiri-Petersen, Ditte Tvinnereim, Endre Yu, Ruoh-rong 2020 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2725636 https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124117747304 eng eng urn:issn:0049-1241 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2725636 https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124117747304 cristin:1883928 CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ © 2020, Authors CC-BY-NC Sociological Methods & Research Peer reviewed Journal article 2020 ftnorce https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124117747304 2022-10-13T05:50:38Z Questionnaire design is routinely guided by classic experiments on question form, wording, and context conducted decades ago. This article explores whether two question order effects (one due to the norm of evenhandedness and the other due to subtraction or perceptual contrast) appear in surveys of probability samples in the United States and 11 other countries (Canada, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom; N = 25,640). Advancing theory of question order effects, we propose necessary conditions for each effect to occur, and found that the effects occurred in the nations where these necessary conditions were met. Surprisingly, the abortion question order effect even appeared in some countries in which the necessary condition was not met, suggesting that the question order effect there (and perhaps elsewhere) was not due to subtraction or perceptual contrast. The question order effects were not moderated by education. The strength of the effect due to the norm of evenhandedness was correlated with various cultural characteristics of the nations. Strong support was observed for the form-resistant correlation hypothesis. publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland NORCE vitenarkiv (Norwegian Research Centre) Canada Norway Sociological Methods & Research 49 3 567 602 |
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Questionnaire design is routinely guided by classic experiments on question form, wording, and context conducted decades ago. This article explores whether two question order effects (one due to the norm of evenhandedness and the other due to subtraction or perceptual contrast) appear in surveys of probability samples in the United States and 11 other countries (Canada, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom; N = 25,640). Advancing theory of question order effects, we propose necessary conditions for each effect to occur, and found that the effects occurred in the nations where these necessary conditions were met. Surprisingly, the abortion question order effect even appeared in some countries in which the necessary condition was not met, suggesting that the question order effect there (and perhaps elsewhere) was not due to subtraction or perceptual contrast. The question order effects were not moderated by education. The strength of the effect due to the norm of evenhandedness was correlated with various cultural characteristics of the nations. Strong support was observed for the form-resistant correlation hypothesis. publishedVersion |
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Stark, Tobias Silber, Henning Krosnick, Jon A. Blom, Annelies G. Aoyagi, Midori Belchior, Ana Bosnjak, Michael Clement, Sanne Lund John, Melvin Jónsdóttir, Guðbjörg Andrea Lawson, Karen Lynn, Peter Martinsson, Johan Shamshiri-Petersen, Ditte Tvinnereim, Endre Yu, Ruoh-rong |
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Stark, Tobias Silber, Henning Krosnick, Jon A. Blom, Annelies G. Aoyagi, Midori Belchior, Ana Bosnjak, Michael Clement, Sanne Lund John, Melvin Jónsdóttir, Guðbjörg Andrea Lawson, Karen Lynn, Peter Martinsson, Johan Shamshiri-Petersen, Ditte Tvinnereim, Endre Yu, Ruoh-rong Generalization of Classic Question Order Effects Across Cultures |
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