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Chapter 10 True/False Quiz
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Satisficing may explain why some respondents tend to give "no opinion" or "donât know" responses.
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Closed-ended questions are more valid than open-ended questions because they offer standard response options.
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Survey questions always should explicitly provide the "donât know" response option.
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A good source of survey questions is questions developed by other researchers.
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Opening questions in a survey should be simple and closed-ended.
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Providing a reference period such as yesterday or last week generates more accurate reporting of behavior than just asking respondents what they usually do.
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One way of avoiding response bias tendencies is to vary the arrangement of questions.
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Cognitive interviewing attempts to understand respondents' thought processes in answering survey questions.
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Behavioral coding and respondent debriefings are designed to make field pretesting more systematic and reliable.
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