Beyond anxiety and ‘political correctness’: How experimental design trumps ‘gaming it’ and gets more deeply into the mind
July 2009
One of the continuing issues in consumer and public opinion research is the respondent’s desire to please the interviewer or be perceived as being ‘PC’ (politically correct). Covert social pressure may well lead to erroneous information, as the interviewee weighs the answer to be given in light of truth, expected interviewer reaction, and the interviewee’s own ideals. How, then, does truth get measured, especially when measuring responses for emotionally tinged topics?
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