A question:
You receive a letter asking for participation in an on line survey about the types of services cities provide people. It’s from an academic department at a prestigious university, and the link is to their domain. It is clearly legit research. It includes a dollar bill plus promise of a $25 gift card for completing a 20 minute survey. 1/3
They specify it should be completed by the adult in the house whose birthday comes next in the year. But that person never answers surveys and isn’t going to start now. Plus he has little interest in city services. He would ask his wife to find out the info for him if he ever needed to access anything. 2/3
What do you think the researchers prefer they do?
1. Pretend husband isn’t living there and have wife answer survey
2. Have wife pretend to be husband and answer the way she knows he would, since after all these years she can do so with accuracy
3. Not respond to the survey at all.
@CJLavoie
Kind of agree, except which spouse will refuse to participate is non-random and may be gender-skewed.
@EileenKCarpenter I assume the purpose of the next birthday is to randomize the sample. The value of a complete response outweighs the strict birthday thing, imo. She should respond and do something nice for herself with the money.