Joseph Bulbulia

Can we trust self-report data?

John Shaver, Martin Lang & colleagues went to the trouble of benchmarking self-reported religious service attendance against measured attendance in remote Fiji.

TL; DR: there is measurement error. In the villages studied, people overstate religious service attendance.

John isn’t here yet, but you can follow Martin at @martinlangcz

Link:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0257160

#selfreport #survey #psychology #measurement #anthropology #quantmethods

👋 My name Joseph Bulbulia (Joe). I’m a professor of psychology at Victoria University, New Zealand. Most of my teaching and research relates to inferring #causaleffects using #paneldata. Prediction = 👎. #causation = 🤙. I have 3x PhD scholarships for students interested in #causalinference, #EpiMastodon, #rstats, #r, #climate psychology, #religion, and #wellbeing. Am developing #b-causal.org to describe my lab’s work.