Lack of replication or generalization? Cultural values explain a question wording effect

Henning Silber*, Endre Tvinnereim, Tobias Stark , Annelies G. Blom, Jon A. Krosnick, Michael Bosnjak, Sanne Lund Clement, Anne Cornilleau, Anne-Sophie Cousteaux, Melvin John, Guðbjörg Andrea Jónsdóttir, Karen Lawson, Peter Lynn, Johan Martinsson, Ditte Shamshiri-Petersen, Su-Hao Tu

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Abstract

In the context of the current "replication crisis"across the sciences, failures to reproduce a finding are often viewed as discrediting it. This paper shows how such a conclusion can be incorrect. In 1981, Schuman and Presser showed that including the word "freedom"in a survey question significantly increased approval of allowing a speech against religion in the USA. New experiments in probability sample surveys (n = 23,370) in the USA and 10 other countries showed that the wording effect replicated in the USA and appeared in four other countries (Canada, Germany, Taiwan, and the Netherlands) but not in the remaining countries. The effect appeared only in countries in which the value of freedom is especially salient and endorsed. Thus, public support for a proposition was enhanced by portraying it as embodying a salient principle of a nation's culture. Instead of questioning initial findings, inconsistent results across countries signal limits on generalizability and identify an important moderator.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
Vol/bind10
Udgave nummer5
Sider (fra-til)1121–1147
Antal sider27
ISSN2325-0984
DOI
StatusUdgivet - nov. 2022

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