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Directive probes in cognitive interviewing may encourage respondents to agree with interpretations they haven't experienced, similar to Acquiescent Response Style (ARS). This affirmation bias can negatively impact survey data quality.

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Area of Science:

  • Survey methodology
  • Cognitive interviewing
  • Psychometrics

Background:

  • Cognitive interviewing is a best practice for pretesting survey questionnaires.
  • Concerns exist that probing may elicit problems respondents haven't experienced.
  • Acquiescent Response Style (ARS) is the tendency to agree regardless of content.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if directive probes in cognitive interviews promote an affirmation bias.
  • To examine the influence of probe type on reported interpretations.

Main Methods:

  • An experiment embedded in a cognitive interview pretest of a health survey.
  • Comparison of directive probes (DP) versus non-directive probes (NP).
  • 41 respondents used DP, 26 used NP.

Main Results:

  • DP respondents affirmed queried interpretations over five times more than NP respondents.
  • NP respondents volunteered alternative interpretations over four times more than DP respondents.
  • Effects were stronger for younger respondents and those with lower education.

Conclusions:

  • Directive probing in cognitive interviews may induce an affirmation bias, resembling ARS.
  • This bias can compromise the quality of evidence from cognitive interviews.
  • Non-directive probes may yield more genuine respondent interpretations.