Measurements of Susceptibility to Anchoring are Unreliable
Röseler and colleagues address a decade of research relating anchoring susceptibility to personality traits, including intelligence, the Big Five and narcissism, which has produced contradictory findings. Their diagnosis is measurement. Few of those reports disclosed any estimate of how reliable the susceptibility scores were, and the authors' analysis of a large open dataset indicates the measures are unreliable, which is sufficient on its own to produce inconsistent correlations with anything. The practical consequence for a reader is blunt: there is no validated way to find out whether you personally resist anchoring, and the feeling of being the exception has nothing behind it. The methodological consequence is larger, since a field can accumulate years of findings about who is susceptible to an effect without ever establishing that the susceptibility score means anything.
Röseler and colleagues address a decade of research relating anchoring susceptibility to personality traits, including intelligence, the Big Five and narcissism, which has produced contradictory findings. Their diagnosis is measurement. Few of those reports disclosed any estimate of how reliable the susceptibility scores were, and the authors' analysis of a large open dataset indicates the measures are unreliable, which is sufficient on its own to produce inconsistent correlations with anything. The practical consequence for a reader is blunt: there is no validated way to find out whether you personally resist anchoring, and the feeling of being the exception has nothing behind it. The methodological consequence is larger, since a field can accumulate years of findings about who is susceptible to an effect without ever establishing that the susceptibility score means anything.
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Röseler, L., Weber, L., Helgerth, K., et al. (2024). 'Measurements of susceptibility to anchoring are unreliable.' Meta-Psychology. doi:10.15626/mp.2022.3236. See also the Open Anchoring Quest dataset, doi:10.5334/jopd.67.
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DOI: 10.15626/mp.2022.3236