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How Well Do People Report Time Spent on Facebook?: An Evaluation of Established Survey Questions with Recommendations |
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Many studies examining social media use rely on self-report survey questions about how much time participants spend on social media platforms. Because they are challenging to answer accurately and susceptible to various biases, these self-reported measures are known to contain error -- although the specific contours of this error are not well understood. This paper compares data from ten self-reported Facebook use survey measures deployed in 15 countries (N = 49,934) against data from Facebook's server logs to describe factors associated with error in commonly used survey items from the literature. Self-reports were moderately correlated with actual Facebook use (r = 0.42 for the best-performing question), though participants significantly overestimated how much time they spent on Facebook and underestimated the number of times they visited. People who spent a lot of time on the platform were more likely to misreport their time, as were teens and younger adults, which is notable because of the high reliance on college-aged samples in many fields. We conclude with recommendations on the most accurate ways to collect time-spent data via surveys.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2020 | 10.1145/3313831.3376435 | CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Honolulu
HI
USA
April, 2020 |
DocType | ISBN | Citations |
Conference | 978-1-4503-6708-0 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala | 1 | 9 | 3.28 |
| Moira Burke | 2 | 1116 | 70.59 |
| Alex Leavitt | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Nicole Ellison | 4 | 6051 | 509.80 |