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topic: self-report-validity
Topic:
self-report-validity
14 entries tagged
self-report-validity
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Rules (3)
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R7 — When the owner can read a number off a screen, have them do so
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R5 — Output tiers, not precise scores
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R4 — Ask about recent, distinctive events — not vague aggregates
Reference entries (11)
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Research brief: SMB widget capture layer — what owners can vs cannot self-report (June 2026)
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Acquiescence bias — over 100 studies; affects ~10-20% of responses
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Confidence does not reliably track accuracy for subjective judgments
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Gigerenzer/Juslin 1991-1994 — frequency framing reduces overconfidence (with Griffin-Tversky 1992 critique)
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Lichtenstein, Fischhoff & Phillips 1977 — the hard-easy effect
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Caveats — vendor quarantine and survivorship bias in the capture-layer evidence
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Tourangeau & Yan 2007 — social-desirability misreporting is common and situational
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Imboden 2023 (US Census/IRS) — survey self-employment income roughly DOUBLE the admin figure
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Parry et al. 2021 — pre-registered meta-analysis: self-report ≠ logged media use
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Junco 2013 — Facebook self-report overstates logged use by ~5.6x
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Tourangeau, Rips & Rasinski (2000) — the four-stage response model
