haha, yes, people have done this! This is called ‘vignette-adjustment’. You basically get people to read short stories and rate how happy they think the character is. There are a few potential issues with this method: (1) they aren’t included in long-term panel data; (2) people might interpret the character’s latent happiness differently based on their own happiness
Anchoring vignettes may also sometimes lack stability within persons. That said, it’s par for the course that any one source of evidence for invariance is going to have its strengths and weaknesses. We’ll always be looking for convergence across methods rather than a single cure-all.
haha, yes, people have done this! This is called ‘vignette-adjustment’. You basically get people to read short stories and rate how happy they think the character is. There are a few potential issues with this method: (1) they aren’t included in long-term panel data; (2) people might interpret the character’s latent happiness differently based on their own happiness
Oh, great, thanks so much! I’ll check this out.
Anchoring vignettes may also sometimes lack stability within persons. That said, it’s par for the course that any one source of evidence for invariance is going to have its strengths and weaknesses. We’ll always be looking for convergence across methods rather than a single cure-all.