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Instructional Manipulation Checks: Detecting Satisficing to Increase Statistical Power

Daniel M. Oppenheimer
affiliation not provided to SSRN

Tom Meyvis
NYU Stern School of Business

Nicolas Davidenko
Stanford University



Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 45, pp. 867-872, 2009

Abstract:     
Participants are not always as diligent in reading and following instructions as experimenters would like them to be. When participants fail to follow instructions, this increases noise and decreases the validity of their data. This paper presents and validates a new tool for detecting participants who are not following instructions – the Instructional manipulation check (IMC). We demonstrate how the inclusion of an IMC can increase statistical power and reliability of a dataset.

Keywords: survey construction, experimental methodology, participant motivation

JEL Classifications: C90, C9, C81

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Date posted: July 27, 2007 ; Last revised: August 17, 2009

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Oppenheimer, Daniel M., Meyvis, Tom and Davidenko, Nicolas, Instructional Manipulation Checks: Detecting Satisficing to Increase Statistical Power (2009). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 45, pp. 867-872, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1003424


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Daniel M. Oppenheimer (Contact Author)
affiliation not provided to SSRN ( email )
No Address Available
Nicolas Davidenko
Stanford University ( email )
Stanford, CA 94305
United States
Tom Meyvis
NYU Stern School of Business ( email )
New York, NY 10011
United States
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