Reliability Concerns in Measuring Respondent Skin Tone by Interviewer Observation

Reliability of AcuGraph system for measuring skin conductance at acupoints.

OBJECTIVE There are many commercially available instruments for measuring electrical conductance, but there is little information about their reliability. The aim of this study was to quantify measurement variability and assess reliability of the AcuGraph system-a commonly used electrodermal screening device. METHODS Four experiments were conducted to measure variability in electrical conduct...

Reporting on first sexual experience: The importance of interviewer-respondent interaction.

Survey methodologists typically seek to improve data on sensitive topics by standardizing surveys and avoiding the use of human interviewers. This study uses data collected from 90 never-married young adults in rural Malawi to compare reports on first sexual encounters between a standard survey and an in-depth interview. A significant fraction of young women who claimed in the survey to have ne...

Explaining interviewer effects and respondent behavior: Theoretical models and empirical analysis

The behavior of respondents in interview situations has been dealt on the one hand with respect to many empirical studies and on the other hand in connection with different theoretical approaches (Hyman 1954; Cannell & Kahn 1968). In this paper the most relevant theoretical explanations are discussed and systematized from the point of view of the theory of reasoned action (Ajzen & Fishbein 1980...

A Lighter Skin Tone

Measuring Demodulator Imbalance in Radio Frequency Receivers by Tone Test

The measurement of in-phase/quadrature (IQ) imbalance parameters of radio frequency direct downconversion receivers by tone test is considered. The receiver is excited by a radio frequency sinewave, and the digital baseband output is used as the sole basis for the determination of the IQ imbalance parameters, which are the gain imbalance, quadrature skew and local oscillator leakage. A set of p...