Case Study: Data Acquisition - Research Integrity and Compliance Review Office

How should the social scientist deal with these issues of their data?

A) The social scientist should just re-do the 35 surveys where the students misunderstood the instructions on how to use the rating scale himself, and populate the number that they should have circled based on their responses. (ie. If they strongly agreed but circled 5, he should just switch it to a 1)

B) He should seek advice on this sample, and research if he would still have a statistically representative sample if he threw out the 72 surveys that had issues.

C) He should only throw out the 8 surveys that people did not take seriously.

Colorado State University

Vice President for Research

How should the social scientist deal with these issues of their data?