Krumpal, Ivar - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 4, pp. 2025-2047
Survey questions asking about taboo topics such as sexual activities, illegal behaviour such as social fraud, or … unsocial attitudes such as racism, often generate inaccurate survey estimates which are distorted by social desirability bias …. Due to self-presentation concerns, survey respondents underreport socially undesirable activities and overreport socially …