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TY - UNPB
T1 - Who Likes It More?
T2 - Using Response Times To Elicit Group Preferences in Surveys
AU - Alos Ferrer, Carlos
AU - Garagnani, Michele
PY - 2025/6/4
Y1 - 2025/6/4
N2 - Surveys remain crucial tools for measuring societal preferences, but their reliabilityis limited by noise and bias in respondent data. We introduce a novelnon-parametric method that leverages response times to reveal group preferencesand rank preference strength across different populations. We validate the approachand apply it to key socio-economic questions using large representative surveys. Themethod complements traditional survey analysis techniques, providing clear indicatorsof when standard analyses may be inadequate and when response time data canyield additional insights. Importantly, our method also quantifies response biases,allowing researchers to adjust for systematic distortions in survey data.
AB - Surveys remain crucial tools for measuring societal preferences, but their reliabilityis limited by noise and bias in respondent data. We introduce a novelnon-parametric method that leverages response times to reveal group preferencesand rank preference strength across different populations. We validate the approachand apply it to key socio-economic questions using large representative surveys. Themethod complements traditional survey analysis techniques, providing clear indicatorsof when standard analyses may be inadequate and when response time data canyield additional insights. Importantly, our method also quantifies response biases,allowing researchers to adjust for systematic distortions in survey data.
KW - Survey Data
KW - Revealed Preference
KW - Response Times
KW - Response Bias
M3 - Working paper
T3 - Economics Working Papers Series
BT - Who Likes It More?
PB - Lancaster University, Department of Economics
CY - Lancaster
ER -