Identifying Careless Responses in Survey Data
Identifying Careless Responses in Survey Data (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028085) was written by Andrew Meade and S. Bartholomew Craig in 2012. It was published in Psychological Methods (vol. 17, no. 3).
Authors discuss extent and possible solutions to non-responsivity ("responding without regard to item content").
- Bigger problem for web surveys due to lack of control over environment.
- Bogus responses can identify non-responsive individuals. Must be designed with attention to straight-liners; should not be possible to straight-line and pass the test.
- Consistency indices work, but carry assumptions about what non-responsive data looks like.