The story of subject naught: A cautionary but optimistic tale of internet survey research

Joseph A. Konstan; B. R.Simon Rosser; Michael W. Ross; Jeffrey Stanton; Weston M. Edwards

doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2005.tb00248.x

The story of subject naught: A cautionary but optimistic tale of internet survey research

Joseph A. Konstan, B. R.Simon Rosser, Michael W. Ross, Jeffrey Stanton, Weston M. Edwards

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In a web-based, sexual behavior risk study using a rigorous response validation protocol, we identifie 124 invalid responses out of 1,150 total (11% rejection). Nearly all of these (119) were due to repeat survey submissions from the same participants, and 65 of them came from a single participant. This brief describes how we were able to detect these repeat submissions using the validation protocol, and highlights the importance of using both automated and manual validation techniques.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	11
Journal	Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Volume	10
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2005.tb00248.x
State	Published - Jan 2005

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