Interesting questions, Laura.  And if it encourages others to answer the
questions, it only took me about five minutes.  I know that test designers
tend to lean toward a longer test time as a possibility.

Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Laura A. Freberg <lfreb...@calpoly.edu>wrote:

> Hi, Tipsters!
>
> One of my students was intrigued by the recent Inbar & Lammers (2012)
> article in Perspectives in Psychological Science pertaining to political
> diversity among members of APA Division 8 Society of Personality
> and Social Psychologists. If you haven't seen this article, you can
> download a copy here:
> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2002636
>
> In the same issue of Perspectives, a number of our colleagues made
> additional comments and criticisms regarding the methodology of th
> original study. Nate obtained the original instrument from Inbar and
> Lammers and adapted it to meet some of these concerns. For example, the
> original Inbar Lammers instrument asked only about discrimination
> towards conservatives, while Nate=E2=80=99s survey is balanced by
> including questions about discrimination towards liberals. In addition,
> Nate is interested in surveying a wider selection of faculty in
> psychology, as the original study was limited to those in the
> Personality and Social Psychology area. This is one of two studies he
> hopes to complete in this area. He is simultaneously surveying faculty
> at our home institution, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, across all
> disciplines. Because Cal Poly has programs such as Agriculture,
> Engineering, and Business that generally have more conservative faculty,
> we believe that this would provide an interesting backdrop to the study
> among psychologists.
>
> We are hoping that you will take about 15 minutes out of your busy
> schedule to respond to this online survey:
> https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BS5WZ5X
>
> The informed consent appears on the first page.
>
> We would also appreciate your forwarding this opportunity to any of your
> colleagues in psychology who might be willing to participate. The Inbar
> Lammers participants included graduate students who were teaching, so we
> would be interested in having your grad students participate, too. If
> you have any questions about this survey, please feel free to ask.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Laura
>
> Laura Freberg, Ph.D.
> Professor of Psychology
> California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
> 805.756.2357
> http://www.laurafreberg.com/blog
> @lfreberg (Twitter)
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