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Does the wording of a question affect people's responses?
Intro
Will a leading question significantly change people's responses?
Intro
Leading questions are an example of response bias, and can make responders more likely to respond in a way that they think the interviewer would approve of. or like
Topic
Do people prefer baseball or football?
Topic
Reason
Low-stakes question
Responders more likely to change position
Reason
Opinionated topic
People likely to have some opinion
Easy to change into leading question
Hypothesis
People will be more likely to say they prefer baseball if asked
Hypothesis
Don't you agree that baseball is better than football?
THan if they were asked
Do you prefer baseball or football?
Neutral ?
Do you prefer baseball or football?
Both referred to with no modifiers
Neither favorable nor negative
Possible small bias in word order
Neutral ?
Leading ?
Don't you agree that baseball is better than football?
Leading ?
Blatant favoritism towards baseball
Could potentially change respondant's answer
Respondant may try to please the interviewer
Collecting Data
Population: Seniors and Juniors in Hilltop High
Sample: 30 Juniors and 30 Seniors
Sample Type: Stratified Random Sample
Collecting Data
Selection
1. Assigned a number to each page of the 2016-17 yearbook
2. Randomly selected 30 pages from Sophomore section and 30 pages form Junior section with RNG
3. Assigned a number to each student in a page
4. Randomly selected one student from each page with RNG, half to each question
Surveying
To survey the selected students, we approached them during lunch, asking them the question corresponding to the one they were selected for.
By always asking at the same time in the same way, we minimize externalities.
Surveying
Data
Table
Data
Response Bias Survey Answers – Juniors
Question Type Yes, baseball No, football Totals
Leading 7 8 15
Neutral 7 8 15
Totals 14 16 30
Response Bias Survey Answers – Seniors
Question Type Yes, baseball No, football Totals
Leading 7 8 15
Neutral 8 7 15
Totals 15 15 30
Conditional Data Table
Response Bias Survey Answers – Juniors
Question Type Yes, baseball No, football Totals
Leading 46.7% 53.3% 100%
Neutral 46.7% 53.3% 100%
Response Bias Survey Answers – Seniors
Question Type Yes, baseball No, football Totals
Leading 46.7% 53.3% 100%
Neutral 53.3% 46.7% 100%
Graphs
Summary Statistics
Percentage of people that chose baseball when asked the Neutral question:
50%
Percentage of people that chose baseball when asked the Leading question:
46.6%
Conclusion
50% and 46% not a signinficant difference
Only difference of one response
Opposite result from our predicted
Less people preferred baseball when we deliberately led them to that response
The wording of our question did not affect people's stated preferences for baseball and football
Reflection
Reflection
Small sample size may have led to less observable influence on the subjects of the survey
More people in the sample could substantially change the results we obtain
Stratified sample may not have been necessary
There were no observable significant differences between Seniors and Juniors' preferences, stratification may have made some trends more difficult to notice