Research on cyberbullies suffers self-selection bias due to their anonymity

Evidence

Cyberbullies are difficult to study because they go to great lengths to remain unknown. Studies based on self-reported cyberbullies, therefore, include a self-selection bias of unknown degree. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 292

Categorization

Category: Craft and Method

  • QUESTION: Worth chasing whether any anonymous-recall methodologies exist for studying cyberbullies given self-report is inherently biased.