Hiding a study’s political focus prevents interviewees from performing false political interest

Evidence

The interviews took place in the Institute building, lasting on average two and a half hours, and were based on interview guidelines and usually free questions, so that to some extent they had the quality of conversation. The interviewees were told that the research was concerned with `study problems’. The questions about involvement in politics were positioned as unobtrusively as possible, so as to prevent the interviewees from being tempted to pretend they were interested in politics in order to make a good impression. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 576

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Political climate shapes which research questions scholars dare to ask; Participants told a study’s true purpose would not behave naturally; The group study’s bland title deliberately muted its political subject matter. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 497 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Political climate shapes which research questions scholars dare to ask; Participants told a study’s true purpose would not behave naturally; The group study’s bland title deliberately muted its political subject matter. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 497 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Students and Politics camouflaged its political questions to avoid social-desirability bias #exemplifies (0.93) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2334