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Measuring Misinformation in Repeat Trial Pick 1 of 2 Tests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Pamela W. Henderson  and
Bruce Buchanan
Pamela W. Henderson
Affiliation:
Washington State University
Bruce Buchanan*
Affiliation:
Department of Marketing, New York University
*
Requests for reprints should be sent to Bruce Buchanan, Department of Marketing, New York University, Room 8-82, Management Education Center, New York, NY 10003.
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Abstract

An extension is described to a product testing model to account for misinformation among subjects. A misinformed subject is one who associates the taste of product A with product B and vice-versa; thus, the subject would tend to perform incorrectly on pick 1 of 2 tests. A likelihood ratio test for the presence of misinformation is described. The model is applied to a data set, and misinformation is found to exist. Biases due to model misspecificationand other implications for product testing are discussed.

Keywords

product testingmisinformationrandom guessingBayesian true scores
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Information
Psychometrika , Volume 57 , Issue 4 , December 1992 , pp. 615 - 619
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

The first author is currently on leave from Carnegie Mellon University.

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