Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys
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Author(s)
White, Ariel R.
Strezhnev, Anton
Lucas, Christopher
Kruszewska, Dominika
Huff, Connor
Date Issued
March 2018
Journal
Journal of Experimental Political Science
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Citation
White, Ariel et al. "Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys." Journal of Experimental Political Science 5, 1 (March 2018): 56 - 67 © 2018 The Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
Prior research demonstrates that responses to surveys can vary depending on the race, gender, or ethnicity of the investigator asking the question. We build upon this research by empirically testing how information about researcher identity in online surveys affects subject responses. We do so by conducting an experiment on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in which we vary the name of the researcher in the advertisement for the experiment and on the informed consent page in order to cue different racial and gender identities. We fail to reject the null hypothesis that there is no difference in how respondents answer questions when assigned to a putatively black/white or male/female researcher.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
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https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2017.25
