Reporting Balance Tables, Response Rates and Manipulation Checks in Experimental Research: A Reply from the Committee that Prepared the Reporting Guidelines

Author(s): 

Alan S. Gerber, Kevin Arceneaux, Cheryl Boudreau, Conor Dowling, and D. Sunshine Hillygus

ISPS ID: 
ISPS15-34
Full citation: 
Gerber, A., Arceneaux, K., Boudreau, C., Dowling, C., & Hillygus, D. (2015). Reporting Balance Tables, Response Rates and Manipulation Checks in Experimental Research: A Reply from the Committee that Prepared the Reporting Guidelines. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2(2): 216-229. DOI:10.1017/XPS.2015.20.
Abstract: 
We welcome the comments on our committee’s Reporting Guidelines (2014, Journal of Experimental Political Science 7 1(1): 81–98) from Diana Mutz and Robin Pemantle, as well as the opportunity to clarify our recommendations. We appreciate the points they raise and share their goal of encouraging a better understanding of experimental methods. Nonetheless, we are not in complete agreement with their proposed revisions to our recommendations.
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Publication date: 
2016
Publication type: 
Article
Publication name: 
Journal of Experimental Political Science
Discipline: 
Political Science
Area of study: 
Methodology