Interviewed deradicalized extremists differ systematically from those who refuse or never exit.

Evidence

Family members who agree to be interviewed may be systematically different from those who refuse to participate. Similarly, individuals who have deradicalized and agree to be interviewed may be different from those who refuse to participate and from those who never deradicalize. Among those who are interviewed, respondents might not report truthfully or may recall things incorrectly (i.e., recall bias). — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 131

Categorization

• XREF: Selection bias means self-reported exit causes may not generalize — relevant to testing the withdrawal-of-conflict hypothesis against what these 24 chose to describe. — connects to: Interviews probed deradicalization as life-course narrative from early life to exit — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 270; Deradicalized individuals can be interviewed about their own exit process.; Interventions by individual people helped most sampled extremists exit or deradicalize. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 398

Broader Connections

• Interventions by individual people helped most sampled extremists exit or deradicalize. #expands (0.75) — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 398