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The Impact of repeated lying on survey results
  We study the effects on results of participants completing a survey more than once, a phenomenon known as farming. Using data from a real social science study as a baseline, three strategies that participants might use to farm are studied by Monte Carlo simulation. Findings show that farming influences survey results and can cause both statistical hypotheses testing Type I (false positive) and Type II (false negative) errors in unpredictable ways.

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    01 January 2013

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Sage Publications

  • DOI:

    10.1177/2158244012472345

  • ISSN:

    2158-2440

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    378 Higher education

Citation

Chesney, T., & Penny, K. I. (2013). The Impact of repeated lying on survey results. SAGE Open, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012472345

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Keywords

Survey results; farming; Monte Carlo simulation; statistical hypotheses testing Type I (false positive); Type II (false negative); lying;

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