Biases introduced by the fitting of functions to attitudinal survey data

This chapter considers the role that participants’ ideological and attitudinal stances play in determining their current language practices. Language practices among former-GME students – both the overall extent and nature of interviewees’ Gaelic use – were demonstrated in the previous chapter to be rather limited among the majority of participants, with past socialisation experiences emerging as a key consideration in interviewee accounts, questionnaire responses, and statistical correlations. Building on that understanding, this chapter presents an analysis of interviewees’ language ideologies with a view to understanding how interviewees’ beliefs and linguistic identities may also influence their language practices. Ideologies are particularly examined in respect of appropriate Gaelic use, the wider Gaelic community, and the perceived relevance of Gaelic for cultural identities. A quantitative perspective is then brought to bear on these considerations using online attitudinal survey data.

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Utilization of community noise attitudinal survey data to effect program policy changes

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ◽

10.1121/1.2018177 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 67 (S1) ◽

pp. S34-S34

Author(s):

Patti Thiel Fricks ◽

Richard B. Ranck

Keyword(s):

Survey Data ◽

Policy Changes ◽

Community Noise ◽

Attitudinal Survey ◽

Program Policy

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The Privacy Pragmatic as Privacy Vulnerable

10.31235/osf.io/yh8nj ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer Urban

Keyword(s):

Survey Data ◽

Regulatory System ◽

Costs And Benefits ◽

Privacy Preferences ◽

Segmentation Methods ◽

Making Choices ◽

Attitudinal Survey ◽

Privacy Analysis ◽

Original Survey ◽

Taking Action

*Abstract: *Alan Westin’s well-known and often-used privacy segmentation fails to describe privacy markets or consumer choices accurately. The segmentation divides survey respondents into “privacy fundamentalists,” “privacy pragmatists,” and the “privacy unconcerned.” It describes the average consumer as a “privacy pragmatist” who influences market offerings by weighing the costs and benefits of services and making choices consistent with his or her privacy preferences. Yet, Westin’s segmentation methods cannot establish that users are pragmatic in theory or in practice. Textual analysis reveals that the segmentation fails theoretically. Original survey data suggests that, in practice, most consumers are not aware of privacy rules and practices, and make decisions in the marketplace with a flawed, yet optimistic, perception of protections. Instead of acting as “privacy pragmatists,” consumers experience a marketplace myopia that causes them to believe that they need not engage in privacy analysis of products and services.Westin’s work has been used to justify a regulatory system where the burden of taking action to protect privacy rests on the very individuals who think it is already protected strongly by law. Our findings begin to suggest reasons behind both the growth of some information-intensive marketplace activities and some prominent examples of consumer backlash.Based on knowledge-testing and attitudinal survey work, we suggest that Westin’s approach actually segments two recognizable privacy groups: the “privacy resilient” and the “privacy vulnerable.” We then trace the contours of a more usable segmentation and consider whether privacy segmentations contribute usefully to political discourse on privacy.Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2514381

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Is the Personal Always Political?

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000230 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 133-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Danny Osborne ◽

Yannick Dufresne ◽

Gregory Eady ◽

Jennifer Lees-Marshment ◽

Cliff van der Linden

Keyword(s):

Survey Data ◽

National Survey ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Openness To Experience ◽

Political Sophistication ◽

Knowledge Based

Abstract. Research demonstrates that the negative relationship between Openness to Experience and conservatism is heightened among the informed. We extend this literature using national survey data (Study 1; N = 13,203) and data from students (Study 2; N = 311). As predicted, education – a correlate of political sophistication – strengthened the negative relationship between Openness and conservatism (Study 1). Study 2 employed a knowledge-based measure of political sophistication to show that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction was restricted to the Openness aspect of Openness. These studies demonstrate that knowledge helps people align their ideology with their personality, but that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction is specific to one aspect of Openness – nuances that are overlooked in the literature.

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