An indirect measure is defined relationally by researcher inference, not by procedure.
Evidence
The distinction between direct and indirect measures depends only on the relation between what the subject is informed about the purpose of a measure and what the researcher chooses to infer from the subject’s response. If the subject is advised that A is being measured, but the researcher uses the response to infer something about B, the direct measure of A is an indirect measure of B. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 82
Categorization
- DEFINE: Crucial for the reading purpose — clarifies that ‘indirect’ is a function of subject knowledge versus researcher inference, not task form.
- XREF: connects to: Social psychology circa 1989 almost exclusively used direct self-report attitude measures. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 78
Related
- Indirectness of a measure depends on researcher’s inference, not subject’s awareness (similarity 0.89)
- Implicit cognition cannot be studied with introspection-presuming direct measures. (similarity 0.87)
- Social psychology circa 1989 almost exclusively used direct self-report attitude measures. (similarity 0.83)
- Research practice overwhelmingly assumes attitudes operate consciously (similarity 0.83)
- Social psychology long treated attitudes and stereotypes as consciously accessible via self-report. (similarity 0.80)
- Dissociation between implicit and explicit measures validates the implicit attitude construct. (similarity 0.80)
- The implicit self-esteem hypothesis requires an indirect measure that did not yet exist. (similarity 0.80)
- Social cognition largely operates in an implicit mode (similarity 0.79)