Survey about sexual orientation of surveyor changing results
March 22, 2015 3:43 PM   Subscribe

A while ago on the Blue (I think) I saw an article about an experiment done where the people giving the survey would either make some comment that indicated they were homosexual or not, and the results of the survey changed based on that. I can't find this article now, when I have a speech on LGBT rights.

It doesn't sound like a very scientific experiment, but I am wanting to read it again in context so I can see if it's worth using in my speech. Any idea where this might be?
posted by motioncityshakespeare to Human Relations (1 answer total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, no biggie but questions about articles you've seen on the blue belong in MetaTalk -- go ahead and post this over there instead. -- LobsterMitten

 
I don't know of that particular study, but search terms that might help you are

stereotype threat
and
priming

There are others but I can't think of them off the top of my head. A refresher on Survey Methods will include "things to avoid" or "things to do to test the validity of your question set" (repeating questions, changing the order of your questions, etc)
posted by bilabial at 3:45 PM on March 22, 2015


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