web surveys

Position: Insights from Survey Methodology can Improve Training Data

Whether future AI models are fair, trustworthy, and aligned with the public’s interests rests in part on our ability to collect …

Stephanie Eckman, Barbara Plank, Frauke Kreuter

Position: Insights from Survey Methodology can Improve Training Data

Annotation Sensitivity: Training Data Collection Methods Affect Model Performance

When training data are collected from human annotators, the design of the annotation instrument, the instructions given to annotators, …

Christoph Kern, Stephanie Eckman, Jacob Beck, Rob Chew, Bolei Ma, Frauke Kreuter

Annotation Sensitivity: Training Data Collection Methods Affect Model Performance

Underreporting of Purchases in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey

Motivated misreporting occurs when respondents give incorrect responses to survey questions to shorten the interview; studies have …

Stephanie Eckman

Motivated Misreporting in Smartphone Surveys

Filter questions are used to administer follow-up questions to eligible respondents while allowing respondents who are not eligible to …

Jessica Daikeler, Ruben Bach, Henning Silber, Stephanie Eckman

Misreporting to Looping Questions in Surveys: Recall, Motivation and Burden

Looping questions are used to collect data about several similar events, such as employment spells, retirement accounts, or marriages. …

Stephanie Eckman, Frauke Kreuter

Does the Inclusion of Non-Internet Households in a Web Panel Reduce Coverage Bias?

The LISS online panel has made extra efforts to recruit and retain households that were not regular users of the internet into the …

Stephanie Eckman