After the strong criticism of a youth survey by the city of Ansfelden, the Johannes Kepler University Linz now admits mistakes, the responsible professor publicly apologized. You were also asked if you find it disgusting when two men kiss.
The JKU carried out the research on behalf of the municipality, which was carried out by the Empirical Social Research Service. University professor Johann Bacher publicly apologized to ORF: “Because there were methodological errors in the set of questions integrated into the questionnaire. That can happen and in this case it did. It’s especially unfortunate because it also has a strong ethical dimension and young people felt offended by the nature of the questions.”
“Methodical Error”
When measuring a sensitive subject such as homophobia, it would be important to use a positively worded item, such as that you are okay with two men or two women being allowed to marry. And that second item was forgotten, that was the methodological error, according to Bacher. This mistake is regrettable and he regrets it, but cannot be undone, says Bacher. The questions that were criticized were removed from the online survey over the weekend.
Source: Krone
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