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He blames "groupthink," the tendency to agree with the consensus.
Hoxha's Stalin shows a suspicious tendency to agree with young Enver, who occasionally pre-empts his master's judgments.
Acquiescent response style (the tendency to agree to questionnaire items regardless of content) is an issue that has plagued questionnaire design for decades.
In particular, many common social media measures are prone to acquiescence response bias, an error that occurs due to individuals' tendency to agree with agree disagree questions.
Another psychological hurdle, acquiescence bias, is the default tendency to agree with statements when knowledge is limited or none of the available answers fit.
Further, when the individual-level tendency to agree with questions is controlled, Facebook measures demonstrate greater criterion validity in their relations to items that do not use agree disagree scales.
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Respondents may introduce bias in several ways, for example, by giving socially desirable responses as a result of cognitive consistency pressure (making ratings congruent with their continuing use of the service) and through acquiescent response sets (a tendency always to agree or reply positively).
Second, respondents' tendency to 'agree' or 'strongly agree' with most items, regardless of whether they reflected accurate or inaccurate perceptions of biospecimen-based research, caused response patterns for these two types of items to vary.
They have a tendency, however, not to agree with one another and are no strangers to violence.
According to some, Aboriginal people lacked enough education and confidence to ask appropriate questions, evidenced by the tendency of patients to agree with whatever was being said (referred to in the literature as 'gratuitous concurrence') [ 7]: "it was difficult because often people would say 'yes I understand' and you don't know if they did" (CSP3, urban non-Aboriginal participant).
Therefore, it is possible that the increased number of response options on the 2005 Likert scaling of the items may have also introduced an acquiescence bias, that is a greater tendency and opportunity to agree with the items [ 21], compared to the dichotomous "yes/no" response options of the 1997 8 items.
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