What is it about?
People answered repeated real-time surveys more quickly over time, but their responses did not become less accurate. These findings suggest that faster response times may reflect growing familiarity with the survey rather than lower-quality responses.
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Why is it important?
Researchers often worry that people put less effort into repeated surveys as they become familiar with them. This study suggests that participants can answer more quickly without reducing response quality. Thus, faster responding across time is not always problematic.
Perspectives
Our group often worked with survey response time data, and often observed that participants would provide responses faster after repeated assessment. To us (and hopefully other research groups) the results were a relief in that they suggested that people could be becoming more efficient in responding over time, not just more careless. Perhaps the relief would be felt more by data quality nerds like us.
Raymond Hernandez
University of Southern California
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This page is a summary of: Comparisons of Self-Report With Objective Measurements Suggest Faster Responding but Little Change in Response Quality Over Time in Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies, Assessment, April 2024, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/10731911241245793.
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