Survey Experiments

Question 1

Why Opt for a survey experiment

Answer 1

Survery can be cheap and ensure random assignment, similar to an RCT

Question 2

Disadvantages of Survey Experiments

Answer 2

Can be weak and hard to deduce whether people’s true attitudes will translate into actual behaviors

Question 3

Priming Experiment

Answer 3

Encouraging you to put yourself in the shoes of others, take a certain perspective – basically prepping the subject to think a certain way before answering the survey questions. Often use the same or a similar question when doing this

Question 4

Vignette Experiement

Answer 4

Help us to understand the effect of different phrasing of a question or different types of information being provided

Question 5

Framing Experiment

Answer 5

Asking a similar question a different way through phrasing to see if this will elicit a different response from participants

Question 6

List Experiment

Answer 6

Used to learn about attitudes/experiences that respondents would be reluctant offer up themselves. Also, hiding individual responses can encourage a truthful response

Question 7

Conjoint experiment

Answer 7

Assesses how people make tradeoffs when given different options. But this also has the concern of social desirability bias

Question 8

Average Marginal Component Effect

Answer 8

Identifies the causal effect of a particular value of the atrribute of profile j on the probability that the profile is choesen while holding the other attributes fixed