Knowledge Question
A knowledge question is designed to capture the extent to which people have stored factual information in long-term memory and how well they can retrieve and respond with that information when asked a survey question about a given topic. Knowledge, as a concept, is distinct from attitudes and opinions. Knowledge, moreover, is not synonymous with the term information. Whereas information describes a wider breadth of content that may include non-neutral as well as neutral elements, knowledge is considered neutral, factual content. The term factual is one that has been debated. Facts refer to those content elements on which there is consensual agreement. For example, it is a fact that it takes two thirds of Congress to override a presidential veto. Whether or not a given ...
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Reader's Guide
Ethical Issues In Survey Research
Measurement - Interviewer
Measurement - Mode
Measurement - Questionnaire
Measurement - Respondent
Measurement - Miscellaneous
Nonresponse - Item-Level
Nonresponse - Outcome Codes And Rates
Nonresponse - Unit-Level
Operations - General
Operations - In-Person Surveys
Operations - Interviewer-Administered Surveys
Operations - Mall Surveys
Operations - Telephone Surveys
Political And Election Polling
Public Opinion
Sampling, Coverage, And Weighting
Survey Industry
Survey Statistics
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