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Introduction
Survey Instrumentation
Why use anchoring vignettes?
What are the requirements for the use of anchoring vignettes?
What empirical evidence do you have that it works?
How many anchoring vignettes should I ask for each concept I want to measure?
Should I ask vignettes questions of all people or a random subset?
How much expense will anchoring vignettes add?
When do anchoring vignettes make the most difference?
In what order should vignettes and self-assessment questions be asked?
How is this strategy affected by the finding in social-psychology that assessments of oneself and others differ?
Can we avoid DIF by using a panel design, without vignettes?
What issues should I consider when writing vignettes?
Should the vignette describe the age, sex, etc., of the hypothetical person? Should it be self-referential?
What has to go wrong for anchoring vignette corrections to bias my results?
Why will anchoring vignettes work when we know that putting educational achievement tests on a common scale has not been possible?
Is there a simpler way of asking questions so we can avoid any statistical analysis?
Do I need one vignette for each response category?
Can I use anchoring vignettes if I don't have variables to predict the thresholds?
Doesn't Anchoring Vignettes merely move the problem of coming up with DIF-free survey questions back one level (from self-assessments to vignettes), and so in the end you have the same problem?
If I have a direct physical measurement, such as a medical test, do I need anchoring vignettes?
Are universally applicable, culture-independent survey questions possible?
Can I use anchoring vignettes to understand why respondents understand survey questions in such different ways?
Statistical Analyses with Anchoring Vignettes
Gary King 2006-01-03
