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How can researchers overcome #AcquiescenceBias?

In a #questionnaire, acquiescence is a tendency to agree with statements or answer affirmatively regardless of survey content.

Alvarado-Leiton et al. report simple ways to mitigate it.

https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smaf022

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Do professors with less PC views self-censor?

Clark et al. reported only the linear relationship: the less PC their view, the more reluctant professors were to share it. Kudos to Clark et al. for publishing their data so Luke could detect a better-fitting non-linear, non-unified explanation: most professors were not self-censoring; they were either uncertain or else unreluctant to share.

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ab34v

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Surprised this conclusion survived #peerReview: a "program succeeded in promoting positive attitudes and beliefs" about "#implicitBias #education ...among ...police" (N = 145).

The 1st survey was online, but the 2nd was in-person. And the 1st survey's questions weren't about the same trainings as the 2nd survey's.

So any differences in answers are as explainable by differences between the surveys as they are by one #education program.

https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2296585

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How do we know what participants thought when we presented our stimuli?

#ProcessTracing can reveal what people saw (e.g., eye-tracking), consciously thought (e.g., concurrent think-aloud), etc.

Combining those two methods revealed:
(1) thinking aloud didn't impact gaze or word count
(2) retrospective think-aloud left out thoughts that were mentioned concurrently
(3) retrospective think-aloud introduced thoughts unmentioned concurrently

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14956-1_5

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Planning a longitudinal study? Here’s four questions you should ask:

🔹 How should time be scaled?

🔹 How many assessments are needed?

🔹 How frequently should assessments occur?

🔹 When should assessments happen?

Hopwood et al. (2022). “Connecting theory to methods in longitudinal research”:
https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211008407

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