{"id":47182,"date":"2016-05-29T15:50:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T15:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47182"},"modified":"2016-05-29T15:59:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T15:59:59","slug":"reliability-concerns-in-measuring-respondent-skin-tone-by-interviewer-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47182","title":{"rendered":"Reliability Concerns in Measuring Respondent Skin Tone by Interviewer Observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/poq\/nfw015\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Reliability Concerns in Measuring Respondent Skin Tone by Interviewer Observation<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/poq.oxfordjournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Public Opinion Quarterly<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/poq.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/80\/2.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 80, Issue 2<\/a> (2016)<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/poq\/nfw015\" target=\"_blank\">10.1093\/poq\/nfw015<\/a><br \/>\npages 534-541<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.villanova.edu\/villanova\/artsci\/sociology\/facstaff\/biodetail.html?mail=lance.hannon@villanova.edu&amp;xsl=bio_long\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lance Hannon<\/strong><\/a>, Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Sociology &amp; Criminology<br \/>\n<em>Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.villanova.edu\/villanova\/artsci\/sociology\/facstaff\/biodetail.html?mail=robert.defina@villanova.edu&amp;xsl=bio_long\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Robert DeFina<\/strong><\/a>, Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Sociology &amp; Criminology<br \/>\n<em>Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The current study assesses the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/intercoder\" target=\"_blank\">intercoder<\/a> reliability of one of the most important skin tone measurement instruments\u2014the <a href=\"http:\/\/nis.princeton.edu\/downloads\/NIS-Skin-Color-Scale.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Massey\u2013Martin scale<\/a>. This scale is used in several high-profile social surveys, but has not yet been <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychometrics\" target=\"_blank\">psychometrically<\/a> evaluated. The current evaluation is only possible because, for the first time, the <a href=\"http:\/\/gss.norc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">General Social Survey\u2019s<\/a> 2010\u20132014 panel used the instrument to guide interviewers\u2019 skin tone observation of the same respondents in two different years (2012 and 2014). Despite the widespread use of the Massey\u2013Martin scale to investigate potential effects of skin tone on social attitudes and outcomes, the data suggest that the measure has low intercoder reliability. Implications for researchers and survey practitioners are discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/poq.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/80\/2\/534.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliability Concerns in Measuring Respondent Skin Tone by Interviewer Observation Public Opinion Quarterly Volume 80, Issue 2 (2016) DOI: 10.1093\/poq\/nfw015 pages 534-541 Lance Hannon, Professor Department of Sociology &amp; Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Robert DeFina, Professor Department of Sociology &amp; Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania The current study assesses the intercoder reliability of one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394,20],"tags":[17618,18384,23908,22504,18383],"class_list":["post-47182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-general-social-survey","tag-lance-hannon","tag-massey-martin-scale","tag-public-opinion-quarterly","tag-robert-defina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47183,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47182\/revisions\/47183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}