Insufficient Effort Responding: Impact in Survey Data and Approaches for Detection - Dr. Jason Huang

Insufficient Effort Responding mainly occurs in the following method of data collection

Video Analysis
Survey Questionnaire
World Bank Data
All of the above

What does a hunt for “Christmas treeing” refer to in the case of Insufficient Effort Responding?

Making multiple copies of one response for future reference
Examining whether all responses are dated the same
Examining whether the responses are entirely in capital letters
Visual Scan of responses for patterns

All of the following are examples of IER except?

Recognizable pattern like that of a tree in the responses
Responses alternating between "Strongly Agree" and "Agree"
Responses making a greater than ">" sign pattern
Responses making no recognizable pattern

Which of the following is an impact of IER?

Decreased reliability
Attenuating substantive associations
Inflated associations
All of the above

IER leading to inflated observed associations could mean?

Increase in Type I error
Increase in Type II error
Increase in both Type I and Type II error
None of the above

IER scores are likely to average around the mid-point of a scale

True
False
It Depends on the scale
They average above the mid-point

Which of the following is an approach to detect IER?

Infrequency
Instructed responses
Response time
All of the above

Which of the following is not an approach to detect IER?

Post survey
Long string
Meter gauge
Inconsistency

A researcher puts the following question intentionally in the survey: “I was born on February 30th”? Which IER detection approach is this?

Post survey
Long string
Instructed responses
Infrequency

A researcher puts the following question intentionally in the survey: “To monitor quality, please respond with a two for this item”. Which IER detection approach is this?

Post survey
Long string
Instructed response
Infrequency

A researcher asks the following question after the survey: “I carefully read every survey item”. Which IER detection approach is this?

Post survey
Long string
Instructed response
Infrequency

What do you think about dropping respondents from data as a measure to mitigate IER?

It is the first thing a researcher should do
It is the last thing a researcher should do after all other techniques have been used
All other techniques of mitigating IER should be employed after dropping respondents from data
Any of the above depending on data and circumstances of research

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