Modest Expectations
- 1 November 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Methods & Research
- Vol. 6 (2) , 171-182
- https://doi.org/10.1177/004912417700600203
Abstract
This paper measures the effect of interviewers and interviewers'prior expectations on response to threatening questions. The results indicate that interviewers are responsible for an average of about 7% of total response variance, to which expectations contribute a small amount. In most practical situations, interviewer expectations can be ignored.Keywords
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