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Statistical detection of respondent-level content nonresponsivity in Likert-type survey data without measurement models

2025· dissertation· en· W7115029224 on OpenAlexfundno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueeScholarship@McGill (McGill) · 2025
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSurvey Methodology and Nonresponse
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsContent (measure theory)Statistical modelStatistical analysisMeasure (data warehouse)Sampling (signal processing)Pattern recognition (psychology)
DOInot available

Abstract

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An outstanding threat to collecting Likert-type data is content nonresponsivity (CNR)-when the respondent produces item responses in a manner irrespective of the item prompt.CNR might happen when the respondent is careless; but CNR might also happen when the respondent acts in bad faith, using automated tools to prey on online surveys.CNR has well-documented adverse effects on data analyses, such as biased estimates.Researchers have raised alarms about an apparent growing CNR prevalence in online studies.While there is extensive literature on statistical detection of CNR, proposed solutions have My supervisor Dr.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.206
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.489
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.794
Threshold uncertainty score0.979

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.2060.489
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.004
Bibliometrics0.0030.005
Science and technology studies0.0010.005
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0040.003
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.557
GPT teacher head0.435
Teacher spread0.122 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.

Study designSimulation or modeling
DomainMethods
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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