@article{af247eb29ce347ec87eb7c609a931bc5,
title = "Ethnographer Bias in Cross-Cultural Research: An Empirical Study",
abstract = "We direct attention in this paper to the problem of ethnographer bias (i.e. systematic errors occurring in the ethnographic reporting process) in cross-cultural research, and therefore in ethnographic fieldwork itself. Using multiple regression and other multivariate statistics, we assess the influence of ethnographer bias on the correlation between traits in the cross-cultural survey component of Rohner's Rejection-Acceptance Project (RAP). These procedures suggest a systematic ethnographer error, “the bias of romanticism,” in anthropological research. Overall, however, the relationships among substantive variables in this research cannot be ex plained by this bias or by other forms of systematic error plaguing cross-cultural research. Thus in the absence of a successful competing theory, we conclude that all but one of the universal causal-functional relation ships postulated in Rohner's theory are validated.",
author = "Rohner, {Ronald P.} and Dewalt, {Billie R.} and Ness, {Robert C.}",
note = "Funding Information: DeWalt proposed and implemented most of the statistical procedures employed in this paper. Inquiries concerning these procedures should be addressed to him. Ness, DeWalt, and Rohner in various combinations ana lyzed and interpreted the resulting data, and Rohner and Ness were mainly responsible for writing the conceptual sections; Rohner assumed the task of preparing the final manuscript for publication. Inquiries pertaining to the data in this paper should be addressed to Rohner, who is director of the Re jection-Acceptance Project. The research on which this paper is based has been supported over the past six years by three grants to Rohner from the University of Connecticut Research Foundation. The statistical analysis was carried out in the University of Connecticut Computer Center under NSF grant GJ-9. This paper was presented in its original form by DeWalt and Ness in a seminar on advanced statistical techniques. A later version was presented by Rohner and Ness at the Second Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Philadelphia, February 1973. We thank Kenneth P. Hadden and Leonard Katz for commenting on earlier drafts of the paper; we also thank Evelyn C. Rohner for her help in editing the manu script and for her patient typing and retyping of multiple drafts. 1 ",
year = "1973",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1177/106939717300800401",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "8",
pages = "275--308",
journal = "Cross-Cultural Research",
issn = "1069-3971",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "4",
}