Anchoring Vignettes for Privacy (Government - Income)
Question:
How much privacy [do you / does 'Name'] have about [your/his/her]
income?
Response categories:
- Unlimited
- A lot
- Moderate
- Some
- None
Vignettes:
- [Ricky] is part of an ethnic group that is described as being
among the poorest of groups in the country on the basis of
data from the recent Census.
- [Horace's] neighborhood is described as impoverished in the local newspaper on the basis of
data made available from the recent Census.
- [Renaldo's] family income is estimated by a marketing firm. The
firm used socioeconomic data disclosed by passage of a new state
law. The information, including
[Renaldo's] estimated family income is made available on a CD-ROM
for marketers.
- [Richard] works for the state university. The state
government posts his salary on its website.
- [Shenalyn's] income tax return is obtained from an IRS
computer by a hacker and posted on the Internet.
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