Acquiescence bias

Acquiescence, and content- independent consent tendency is to agree regardless of the content of the questions in empirical social research, the tendency of respondents. Acquiescence is one next to the central tendency and social desirability to the dependent by the respondent distortion effects. The degree to which the noise factor Acquiescence disturbs the validity of social scientific measurements varied. It depends on personal characteristics of respondents, the subject of the survey and the design of the questionnaire and the wording of the questions.

The most important measure against Acquiescence is to formulate the alternatives with any questions. In a survey is not so asked "Do you believe in true love? " But " Do you believe in true love, or you do not believe in it? ". If multipart scales ( eg Likert scales ), which ask for approval or disapproval, acquiescence can be reduced by the scale orientation is changed alternately.