| Title |
Seriousness checks are useful to improve data validity in online research
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Behavior Research Methods, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.3758/s13428-012-0265-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Frederik Aust, Birk Diedenhofen, Sebastian Ullrich, Jochen Musch |
| Abstract |
Nonserious answering behavior increases noise and reduces experimental power; it is therefore one of the most important threats to the validity of online research. A simple way to address the problem is to ask respondents about the seriousness of their participation and to exclude self-declared nonserious participants from analysis. To validate this approach, a survey was conducted in the week prior to the German 2009 federal election to the Bundestag. Serious participants answered a number of attitudinal and behavioral questions in a more consistent and predictively valid manner than did nonserious participants. We therefore recommend routinely employing seriousness checks in online surveys to improve data validity. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 6 | 21% |
| United States | 3 | 11% |
| Germany | 2 | 7% |
| Sweden | 2 | 7% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 7% |
| Mexico | 1 | 4% |
| Belgium | 1 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Czechia | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 11% |
| Unknown | 6 | 21% |
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| Members of the public | 18 | 64% |
| Scientists | 10 | 36% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Germany | 3 | 1% |
| United States | 3 | 1% |
| Hungary | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 286 | 96% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 60 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 41 | 14% |
| Researcher | 36 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 31 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 24 | 8% |
| Other | 43 | 14% |
| Unknown | 62 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 119 | 40% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 26 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 16 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 10 | 3% |
| Other | 31 | 10% |
| Unknown | 84 | 28% |
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