作者: Francis L. Huang , Dewey G. Cornell
关键词: Randomized experiment 、 Social psychology 、 Sequence (medicine) 、 Question order 、 Psychology
摘要: Bullying among youth is recognized as a serious student problem, especially in middle school. The most common approach to measuring bullying through self-report surveys that ask questions about different types of victimization. Although prior studies have shown question-order effects may influence participant responses, no study has examined these with school students. A randomized experiment (n = 5,951 students) testing the effect found changing sequence can result 45% higher prevalence rates. These findings raise accuracy several widely used surveys.