POSC300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Observational Error
29 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Measuring public opinion is central to advancing public policy. Often central to creating and maintaining legitimacy. Help you better evaluate validity and reliability issues with questions. Observations are the attitudes, beliefs, or self-reported behaviors of participants. Occur by chance and cancel each other out. Consistently overestimates or underestimates the true value. They must know the relevant and appropriate responses. Must be motivated to answer the question. Interviewer must accurately record the answers as they are understoof by the respondent. Subjects must be able to clearly understand the question and have access to information necessary to answer it.
