The Importance of Replicating a Failure to Replicate: Order Effects on Abortion Items

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A failure to replicate a previously demonstrated order effect on responses to questions about abortion led to a second experiment which was designed to test the hypothesis that the failure was due to a change in the question context which had immediately preceded the abortion items in the original experiments by Schuman, et al. Unlike the results of the first experiment, the results of this second experiment showed that the order effect reported by Schuman and his associates does replicate. In addition, the data indicate that context may condition the magnitude of this order effect. The authors also suggest that the effect may be due to the implicit contrast between the reasons given for abortion by the items when they are asked in one order rather than the other.

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