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CavMan1

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How pollsters handle response bias is a multi-million dollar question


In controlled environments, you can say something like 'Roll this die. If it comes up 6, lie to the question, if it comes up 1-5, tell the truth.' It monkeys with your confidence interval, but it gives the respondent the 'out' if they give the socially unacceptable answer. I can't recall the details, but there was a case (possibly dealing with illegal logging) where they tried this and still got 100% reporting no illegal logging.

(In response to this post by wahoo138)

Posted: 11/13/2017 at 12:15PM



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