Previous Measures : How can we improve?

3. Solutions to Experimenter/Confirmation Bias and Content

The overarching solution to confirmation bias/content is to develop questions from different perspectives (as in, consider culture, geographic location, SES, age/cohorts, etc) to provide the most objective, all-encompassing questionnaire. The questions were presumably developed by individual students. Although there was some convergence in ideas, the questionnaire could have been streamlined more efficiently. Instead, we could develop questions using either (1) a panel consensus method, where questions are considered as a group or (2) a structured delphi method, where individuals in a panel develop their own questions, which are then consolidated and refined repeatedly until ideas are stabilized and the questionnaire is where we want it to be (eg. objective, representative of different perspectives, provides a variety of possible responses).

4. Language

Aside from translating the questionnaire to multiple languages, I think either question development method as mentioned above could potentially address the language barrier and English comprehension issue.

Objectivity also plays into the neutrality of the questions, as PhoebeDychinco stated would address the social desirability/negative connotations issue.