New Publication with @neugebauer.bsky.social in Sociological Science! Factorial surveys are widely used to predict real-world decisions, but are they valid? Our results raise concerns when it comes to predicting real-world decisions from factorial survey responses (1)
Really fascinating stuff. I wonder if a discrete choice experiment, presenting firms with sets of two or more profiles w/ forced choice, would yield same results. In the econometric disc. choice literature, there is often interest in integrating stated and revealed preference data. Similar problem.
We took hiring decisions as a use case. In a field experiment, we sent out ~3000 applications to job vacancies in Germany and measured employer responses. Eight weeks later, we presented nearly identical applicant profiles to the same employers as a part of a factorial survey (2)
Great piece of work!