Question

Which of the following do socially desirable questions NOT contribute to a study?

a. Some respondents may give untruthful answers.

b. The questions may cause all respondents to answer all the questions truthfully.

c. Some participants may be uncomfortable and stop participation.

d. Respondents may refuse to answer the socially desirable questions.

Answer 1

Before going on the answer lets first dicuss about the why socially desirable question does not get so much hike as compare to the subjective question :

1. Because they are differ from academics
2. Lengthy to explain
3. Not so much intrest as compare to other things.

Now we will see the option by option

1. Some respondents may give untruthful answers : this option leads us to get few untruth responces but as we know such topics already have diffrent opinion for diffrent people, but majority was correct. so if majority was along a side and that particular is correct to understand
2. The questions may cause all respondents to answer all the questions truthfully : This is the positive side , if all question respond to a particular topic truthfully , so actual content comes out.
3. Some participants may be uncomfortable and stop participation : this leads to less social contribution but the present contributions was truthfull.
4. Some participants may be uncomfortable and stop participation : If the contribution of the participants was not there so , the resturns answers was not done in forced. so the option D was correct answer.

correct option is D.

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