Older opinionation screens inflated apparent nonresponse among whites
Evidence
Berinsky’s (1999) evidence that some whites declined to respond, rather than honestly reporting their opposition to integration, rested heavily on two older NES racial policy items. They had far more stringent screens for opinionation than more contemporary items have; e.g., in the 1986 NES, an average of 33% gave no opinion on those two items, against an average of only 6% on the other five policy items we used above. — Christopher Tarman and David O. Sears, The Conceptualization and Measurement…, 225
Categorization
- XREF: Whether apparent racial antagonism suppression is real or a measurement artifact bears on whether perceived-threat reporting is distinguishable from true attitudes in this research line. — connects to: Survey measures understate White racial prejudice due to social desirability; Response biases fail to explain symbolic racism’s predictive findings — Christopher Tarman and David O. Sears, The Conceptualization and Measurement…, 227; Social desirability bias does not currently invalidate survey measures of racial attitudes. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2200 (+1 more)
Related
- Social desirability bias does not currently invalidate survey measures of racial attitudes. (similarity 0.86)
- Social desirability bias does not inflate symbolic racism’s link to policy views (similarity 0.82)
- Response biases fail to explain symbolic racism’s predictive findings (similarity 0.82)
- Social desirability bias does not measurably invalidate prejudice survey measures (similarity 0.81)
- Social desirability bias makes present-day racial preference measurement difficult (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Survey measures understate White racial prejudice due to social desirability
#qualifies(0.80) - Response biases fail to explain symbolic racism’s predictive findings
#complicates(0.75) — Christopher Tarman and David O. Sears, The Conceptualization and Measurement…, 227 - Social desirability bias does not currently invalidate survey measures of racial attitudes.
#corroborates(0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2200