due Sep 19 at 7pm This is a graded discussion: 5 points possible 17 47 Methodolo

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due Sep 19 at 7pm This is a graded discussion: 5 points possible 17 47 Methodology Suppose that you wish to find out what actions people are actually taking to prevent the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. You obtain a brochure from the Centers for Disease Control that indicates sensible precautions to take, and then you use this to design a survey to examine whether or not people actually take these precautions. What kinds of problems are you likely to run into in administering such a survey? What isues of social desirability bias should we worry about. Discuss anonymity of findings, social desirability scales, and/or unobtrusive measures (for example, condom sales: if students claim to be practicing safe sex but condom sales in the area are low, then you would suspect that students were answering your questions in a socilly desirable way) as possible means of reducing social desirability concerns. Later this week, read thoughts from your peers and reply to at least one peer with your thoughts. Do you agree with them? Is there a different approach you might use? Tell me how they got you thinking about this and what you would like to ado. Subscribe Search entries or author Unread

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People, in order to look desirable, tend to answer incorrectly on paper pencil tests, to give off a nice persona. This type of bias is called a response bias, which is every investigators nightmare.

One way in which this can be curbed is by putting lie scores, that is, a questions that might be necessary to the research can be introduced again the same questionnaire in a different manner, after a few questions, to ask the same essence, which can then cancel out the discrepancy score.

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