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A General Social Survey Experiment in Generic Words |
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| Authors: | SCHAEFFER NORA CATE |
| Affiliation: | Nora Cate Schaeffer is an Assistant Survey Director, National Opinion Research Center. This research was done for the General Social Survey project, which is under the direction of James A. Davis and is supported by the National Science Foundation, SOC77–03729. The author is grateful to the General Social Survey for including this experiment; to Tom Smith, Jan Dunham, Carol B. Stocking, and John Loft, all of the National Opinion Research Center, for useful comments on earlier drafts of this paper; and to Chris Flinn and Sue Shott for statistical advice. |
| Abstract: | This paper analyses a question wording experiment from the 1980General Social Survey. The experiment used two variants of aseries of items that asked for evaluations of qualities forchildren. The experimental variation used the noun "child" consistently;the standard variation used the pronoun "he" and the noun "child."There were no differences between the two wordings in the waythe traits were evaluated. The lack of a question wording effectcan be partly attributed to the fact that both wordings arebiased in favor of males. Question wording interacted with respondentsex in affecting the sex of the child that respondents claimedto be considering when answering the trait items. |
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