Predicting survey responses: how and why semantics shape survey statistics on organizational behaviour.

Some disciplines in the social sciences rely heavily on collecting survey responses to detect empirical relationships among variables. We explored whether these relationships were a priori predictable from the semantic properties of the survey items, using language processing algorithms which are no...

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Main Authors: Jan Ketil Arnulf, Kai Rune Larsen, Øyvind Lund Martinsen, Chih How Bong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4153608?pdf=render