I'm excited to share this article (open access!) comparing privacy attitudes in the US and Netherlands using factorial vignettes. This was one of my favorite projects (and teams) to work on over the last decade, and this paper represents the last study in the 3+ year project. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19391
@vitak One thing that really stood out to me was the "I have control over the information I share online" item. Am I reading correctly that Dutch respondents hold this belief more strongly than American respondents? But how would that mesh with the higher degree of fatalism among Dutch respondents?
(Very interesting research, by the way!)
@joepie91 I'd need to double-check the data to be certain, but my assumption is that item is positively valenced (others are negatively valenced) so we reverse coded it for scale building. That means the wording for interpretation is "I DON'T have control over the information
I share online," to which Dutch participants expressed higher agreement.
@vitak Ah, that makes a lot more sense, thanks. I guess I got confused by the way it was presented :)
@joepie91 yeah, I agree it's confusing! Reverse coding is common with scales like this but I can see how people would be confused. We probably could have added more details beyond stating the item was reverse coded.