Developing Standards for Post-Hoc Weighting in Population-Based Survey Experiments

• Published in: Journal of experimental political science Vol. 4; no. 2; pp. 161 - 172
• Main Authors: Franco, Annie, Malhotra, Neil, Simonovits, Gabor, Zigerell, L. J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 2017
• Subjects: Bias; Experiments; Heterogeneity; Political science; Polls & surveys; Public opinion surveys; Research methodology; Transparency; Validity; Weighting; Survey experiment; representativeness; transparency; PATE; SATE; weighting; external validity

Weighting techniques are employed to generalize results from survey experiments to populations of theoretical and substantive interest. Although weighting is often viewed as a second-order methodological issue, these adjustment methods invoke untestable assumptions about the nature of sample selecti...