Response Bias Project
Math Medic
Would your decision to eat a delicious hamburger change if you knew the nutrition information? Would you admit to texting and driving in a personal interviewā¦or if a survey was anonymous?
These two questions and many others can expose a very common problem in surveys today: response bias. Response bias occurs when there is a systematic pattern of inaccurate answers to a survey question. This can occur for several different reasons, but here are some examples:
how the question is asked
what information is provided or not provided with the question
characteristics of the interviewer
lack of anonymity
respondents lie
respondents canāt remember accurate information
Josh Tabor has come up with an awesome poster project that actually gets students collecting data. Here is the rubric and here are some examples from his classroom (Thanks Josh!).
About the Author
Kelly Pendleton
Kelly has the fun job of writing questions for the assessment platforms and free lessons. As an AP Stats teacher at Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte, NC, she loves coming up with interesting and engaging scenarios to keep students on their toes! Kelly is all-in on the “EFFL revolution” (as she calls it) and uses it with her own students, even online during the pandemic. Kelly is passionate about schools having equal access to quality materials no matter where they’re located and loves that Math Medic is helping to better that. If you see her in person, she’s the tall one who’s probably munching on popcorn.