{"id":22,"date":"2008-04-06T01:54:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T06:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/06\/yes\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T19:21:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T00:21:53","slug":"yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/06\/yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Just a curiosity, but it happens that in a yes-no binary response test, the reaction time to select \u201cno\u201d is longer than for \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/members.cox.net\/sidelock\/pages\/CT-4.htm\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t taken the time to verify this, or see if anyone has quantified the difference in response times.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2009-12-18: The technical term for this is <strong>Acquiescence Response Bias<\/strong> &#8212; the tendency to agree with any assertion, regardless of its content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a curiosity, but it happens that in a yes-no binary response test, the reaction time to select \u201cno\u201d is longer than for \u201cyes.\u201d Source I haven&#8217;t taken the time to verify this, or see if anyone has quantified the difference in response times. UPDATE 2009-12-18: The technical term for this is Acquiescence Response Bias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,11,8],"tags":[500,552,40],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-programming","category-research","category-usability","tag-bias","tag-compliance","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}