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- Title
Indicating Mate Preferences by Mixing Survey and Process-generated Data. The Case of Attitudes and Behaviour in Online Mate Search.
- Authors
Schmitz, Andreas; Skopek, Jan; Schulz, Florian; Klein, Doreen; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter
- Abstract
Web-based process-generated data is produced by social agency of users and recorded by the respective provider without any originally scientific purpose. We support our idea of advantageous applications of process-generated data by outlining a research example that uses data generated by email contacting on an online dating website for the investigation of mate preferences. This approach follows the paradigm of indicating or 'revealing' preferences by observing choosing acts. Advantages and disadvantages of this approach in comparison to the traditional 'stated preference'- paradigm of survey research are discussed. Both approaches suffer different informational restrictions and induce different problems of valid inference. In conclusion we offer an outlook towards research strategies of an integration of the two quantitative paradigms.
- Subjects
ONLINE dating; MATE selection; DATING (Social customs); INTERPERSONAL relations; SURVEYS
- Publication
Historical Social Research, 2009, Vol 34, Issue 1, p77
- ISSN
0172-6404
- Publication type
Article