Social Media Research
01 Theory
Question
List all research biases and give examples!
- Selection-Bias: Depending on the selection of the sample results may vary
- Hawthorne-Effect: People behave differently when they are watched
- Interviewer-Bias: Interviewers, trough their behavior/use of methods/questions, may introduce a bias
- Social-Desirability-Bias: People tend to answer in a way they think is socially desirable
- Non-Recall-Bias: People forget things or recall them differently
- Non-Response-Bias: Trough Participants not responding the sample might become unrepresentative
- Interpretation Bias: Researchers might introduce their bias while interpreting the data
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