re: Seeking references for self-reporting bias in surveys

[Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com>]

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Eric Ray asked:
Basically, I'd like an objective source to point to about
survey bias, rather than trying to coherently recount
my dimly remembered information from psych classes many
years ago.
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I remember doing some research on surveys for my honors thesis. I checked my bibliography and this was the only reference in it:

Dillman, Don A
1991 The Design and Administration of Mail Surveys. In Annual Review o
Sociology. 17: 225-249.

If you can scare up that paper, it should have a bibliography in it that you can use as a starting point. I also did a quick googling of "survey self selection" and one of the hits was this

http://www.ttra.com/pub/uploads/009.pdf

but I don't know how useful it would be.


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