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The Problem of Informant Accuracy: The Validity of Retrospective Data
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Lee Sailer as mentioned in this paper argued that a measurement whose accuracy is completely unknown has no use whatever and that a serious obstacle in the use of replications for increasing accuracy is the tendency to get closely agreeing repetitions for irrelevant reasons.Abstract:
Lee Sailer Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 "A measurement whose accuracy is completely unknown has no use whatever" [Wilson ( 1 07. p. 232)]. "A serious obstacle in the use of replications for increasing accuracy is the tendency to get closely agreeing repetitions for irrelevant reasons" [Wilson (107. p. 253)1. "My people don't lie to me" (Anonymous Anthropologist).read more
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Interaction Analysis: Foundations and Practice
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A Social Capital Theory of Career Success
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Network data and measurement
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Validity and reliability of the Experience-Sampling Method.
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Predicting tie strength with social media
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The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
Amos Tversky,Daniel Kahneman +1 more
TL;DR: The psychological principles that govern the perception of decision problems and the evaluation of probabilities and outcomes produce predictable shifts of preference when the same problem is framed in different ways.
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Judgment under Uncertainty
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Recognizing: The judgment of previous occurrence.
TL;DR: In this paper, a dual process model is proposed to detect familiarity and the utilization of retrieval mechanisms as additive and separate processes, and the model is extended to the word frequency effect and to the recognition difficulties of amnesic patients.
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Attitudes Versus Actions: The Relationship of Verbal and Overt Behavioral Responses to Attitude Objects.
TL;DR: The attitude concept is the primary building stone in the edifice of social psychology [p. 45] and the extensive attitude literature in the past 20 years supports this contention as discussed by the authors.