An Analysis of Surveys to Determine the Effectiveness of Bias in Question Wording as a Method of Skewing Reported Opinions

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Creator	Sharkansky, Benjamin I.
Abstract	Clear and unbiased question wording is important to obtaining consistent and accurate survey results. However, if the goal is not to obtain accurate results but instead to obtain a specific result, then altering question wording may be effective. To examine this possibility, we created a survey with 9 different versions of a question, one being an unbiased control and the rest being intended to skew the results a particular way. The results show that while the question wording does indeed matter, the exact impact is harder to manipulate. While the results fail to demonstrate that survey results can be consistently skewed a particular way, they do demonstrate that it is feasible to skew results using these methods. Key Words: statistics, statistical analysis, data, surveys, web surveys, public opinion, polling, question wording, MTurk, bias
License	Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Resource Type	Honors College Thesis
Fecha de Emisión	2019-05-24
Degree Level	Bachelor's
Degree Name	Honors Bachelor of Science (H.B.S.)
Degree Field	Mathematics Economics
Degree Grantor	Oregon State University
Commencement Year	2019
Advisor	McLaughlin, Katherine
Committee Member	Emerson, Sarah Restrepo, Juan
Non-Academic Affiliation	Oregon State University. Honors College
Declaración de derechos	In Copyright
Publisher	Oregon State University
Peer Reviewed	No
Language	English [eng]
Embargo reason	Ongoing Research
Embargo date range	2019-05-29 to 2019-12-30

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