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Recent research has shown that survey respondents are not very accurate in estimating autobiographical frequencies (cf. Marquis, Marquis, & Polich, 1986; Burton & Blair, 1991). Autobiographical frequency questions, once considered simple to answer, are now known to present respondents with a formidable memory task that often results in large errors.
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Blair, E., Williamson, K. (1994). On Providing Population Data To Improve Respondents’ Estimates of Autobiographical Frequencies. In: Schwarz, N., Sudman, S. (eds) Autobiographical Memory and the Validity of Retrospective Reports. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2624-6_12
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