This âFiddlerâ featured black and Latino preteens in the lead roles at a time when black-Jewish tensions in the neighborhood had reached an all-time high. And yet its cast members echoed one original Broadway choristerâs ardent declaration that, while working on the show, they came âto love our village.â.
Pew Research reported in 2012 that the typical response rate to their surveys is only 9%. If for a particular survey 15,000 households are contacted, what is the probability that at least 1,500 will agree to respond?
Additionally, some have argued that what researchers may believe to be artifacts of response bias, such as differences in responding between men and women, may in fact just be actual differences between the two groups. Several other studies also found evidence that response bias is not as big of a problem as it seems.The first found that when comparing the responses of participants, with and without controls for response bias, their answers to the surveys were not different.xtreme responding is a form of response bias that drives respondents to only select the most extreme options or answers available. For example, in a survey utilizing a Likert scale with potential responses ranging from 1 to 5, the respondent may only give answers as 1's or 5's.