Overrepresenting salaried staff inflated the survey’s positive results

Evidence

Of the 1176 people questioned, 59 were salaried office workers and 110 were foremen, who generally had more positive attitudes to the company than the manual workers, thus significantly exaggerating the `positive’ resultsaccording to which some three-quarters of those questioned had a positive or very positive attitude to the company. Thus 70 per cent of salaried employees, 60 per cent of foremen, but only 45 per cent of workers thought they were adequately paid for their work. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 510

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates the learned correction that empirical group research carried a positive bias — here it is a sampling-composition bias, an earlier and more concrete version. — connects to: Including office staff inflated the study’s positive company attitudes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2075; Over-sampling office workers and foremen inflated positive company attitudes in the published study. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2075; Survey research is vulnerable to systematic measurement errors that skew results (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Including office staff inflated the study’s positive company attitudes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2075; Over-sampling office workers and foremen inflated positive company attitudes in the published study. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2075; Survey research is vulnerable to systematic measurement errors that skew results (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Over-sampling office workers and foremen inflated positive company attitudes in the published study. #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2075
• Including office staff inflated the study’s positive company attitudes #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2075