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Tobias Gummer; Tanja Kunz – Field Methods, 2025
Political knowledge questions often are used in social sciences web surveys to study political literacy, identify knowledge gaps and misinformation, examine political polarization, and predict political behavior. However, knowledge questions are subject to bias when respondents look up the correct answers online. Lookup behavior can confound…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Multiple Literacies, Knowledge Level, Information Seeking
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Wutich, Amber; Brewis, Alexandra – Field Methods, 2019
Collecting data for cross-cultural research is time consuming and expensive. We report on techniques for efficient and effective cross-cultural data collection, drawn from 18 cross-cultural studies we conducted in 22 countries. We discuss research design, site selection and collaboration building, ethical review, cross-site protocol design, data…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Cross Cultural Studies, Ethnography, Research Design
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Schneider, Carsten Q.; Wagemann, Claudius – Field Methods, 2016
We appreciate Barry Cooper and Judith Glaesser's (henceforth CG) energy and effort put into reflecting on parts of our proposals laid out in "Set-theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences" (2012). We use our response to explain what enhanced standard analysis (ESA) is meant to achieve and what not, an issue about which CG hold erroneous…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Research Problems, Ambiguity (Context)