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Kühne, Simon – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Survey interviewers can negatively affect survey data by introducing variance and bias into estimates. When investigating these interviewer effects, research typically focuses on interviewer sociodemographics with only a few studies examining the effects of characteristics that are not directly visible such as interviewer attitudes, opinions, and…
Descriptors: Surveys, Bias, Social Problems, Political Issues
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Iannario, Maria; Tarantola, Claudia – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
This contribution deals with effect measures for covariates in ordinal data models to address the interpretation of the results on the extreme categories of the scales, evaluate possible response styles, and motivate collapsing of extreme categories. It provides a simpler interpretation of the influence of the covariates on the probability of the…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Probability, Models
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Narjis, Ghulam; Shabbir, Javid – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
The randomized response technique (RRT) is an effective method designed to obtain the stigmatized information from respondents while assuring the privacy. In this study, we propose a new two-stage RRT model to estimate the prevalence of sensitive attribute ([pi]). A simulation study shows that the empirical mean and variance of proposed estimator…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Incidence, Efficiency, Models
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de Leeuw, Tim; Keijl, Steffen – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Although multiple organizational-level databases are frequently combined into one data set, there is no overview of the matching methods (MMs) that are utilized because the vast majority of studies does not report how this was done. Furthermore, it is unclear what the differences are between the utilized methods, and it is unclear whether research…
Descriptors: Databases, Methods, Organizations (Groups), Observation
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Cheng, Siwei – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
One of the most important developments in the current era of social sciences is the growing availability and diversity of data, big and small. Social scientists increasingly combine information from multiple data sets in their research. While conducting statistical analyses with linked data is relatively straightforward, borrowing information…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Distributions, Statistical Bias
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Barr, Abigail; Miller, Luis; Ubeda, Paloma – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
We present a set of studies the objective of which was to test the robustness of the acknowledgment of earned entitlement effect across different experimental modes and populations. We present three sets of results. The first is derived from a between-subject analysis of two independent, but comparable samples of nonstudent adults. One sample…
Descriptors: Robustness (Statistics), Sampling, Surveys, Validity
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Parkkinen, Veli-Pekka; Baumgartner, Michael – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
In recent years, proponents of configurational comparative methods (CCMs) have advanced various dimensions of robustness as instrumental to model selection. But these robustness considerations have not led to computable robustness measures, and they have typically been applied to the analysis of real-life data with unknown underlying causal…
Descriptors: Robustness (Statistics), Comparative Analysis, Causal Models, Models
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Reiber, Fabiola; Pope, Harrison; Ulrich, Rolf – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Randomized response techniques (RRTs) are useful survey tools for estimating the prevalence of sensitive issues, such as the prevalence of doping in elite sports. One type of RRT, the unrelated question model (UQM), has become widely used because of its psychological acceptability for study participants and its favorable statistical properties.…
Descriptors: Surveys, Responses, Cheating, Deception
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Lamprianou, Iasonas – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
This study investigates inter- and intracoder reliability, proposing a new approach based on social network analysis (SNA) and exponential random graph models (ERGM). During a recent exit poll, the responses of voters to two open-ended questions were recorded. A coding experiment was conducted where a group of coders coded a sample of text…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Coding, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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García-Montoya, Laura; Mahoney, James – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
This article develops a framework for the causal analysis of critical events in case study research. A critical event is defined as a contingent event that is causally important for an outcome in a specific case. Using set-theoretic analysis, this article offers definitions and measurement tools for the study of contingency and causal importance…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Causal Models, Definitions, Measurement Techniques
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Sharafizad, Fleur; Brown, Kerry; Jogulu, Uma; Omari, Maryam – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
This article presents an adaptation of an arts-based research method usually reserved for child-focused research to examine organizational processes. We developed Draw, Write, Reflect (DWR), advancing a known method, Draw and Write, for investigating phenomena relating to child participants, to explore a new context: adults engaging in academic…
Descriptors: Art, Research Methodology, Freehand Drawing, Writing (Composition)
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Quintana, Rafael – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Causal search algorithms have been effectively applied in different fields including biology, genetics, climate science, medicine, and neuroscience. However, there have been scant applications of these methods in social and behavioral sciences. This article provides an illustrative example of how causal search algorithms can shed light on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Causal Models, Algorithms, Social Problems
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Veri, Francesco – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
This article aims to clarify fundamental aspects of the process of assigning fuzzy scores to conditions based on family resemblance (FR) structures by considering prototype and set theories. Prototype theory and set theory consider FR structures from two different angles. Specifically, set theory links the conceptualization of FR to the idea of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Theories, Concept Formation, Models
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Elbers, Benjamin – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
An important topic in the study of segregation are comparisons across space and time. This article extends current approaches in segregation measurement by presenting a five-term decomposition procedure that can be used to understand more clearly why segregation has changed or differs between two comparison points. Two of the five terms account…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, School Segregation, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Residential Patterns
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Gibson, C. Ben; Sutton, Jeannette; Vos, Sarah K.; Butts, Carter T. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Microblogging sites have become important data sources for studying network dynamics and information transmission. Both areas of study, however, require accurate counts of indegree, or follower counts; unfortunately, collection of complete time series on follower counts can be limited by application programming interface constraints, system…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Social Media, Mathematics
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