05. Common Questions Asked

Biases in Data Processing

Other common questions asked:

Question: How do deal with Social desirability?

  • You can assure confidentiality and anonymity to the respondent.
  • You can also provide some information back (e.g., age range, can tell distribution for your age range, give something back in the form of aggregated data)

    • Lesson 3 12 Q A How Do You Combat Social Desirability

    Question: Do you need to be a subject matter expert to mitigate biases?

    You need to understand how variables work together in the data processing and insight stage. Think about problem statement and issue tree, think about issue tree and hypotheses. This encourages you to think about the problem outside of the data.

    Lesson 3 13 Q A Do You Need To Be An Expert To Understand Data Biases

    Is there a checklist we can run through for Data Collection Stage?

    Lesson 3 11 Q A Is There A Checklist For The Data Collection Stage

    Is selection bias okay in some circumstances?

    Lesson 3 09 Q A Is Selection Bias Okay-

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