Before revision: Regarding survey answers, satisficing manifests in: choosing explicitly offered no-opinion or 'don't know' response option choosing socially desirable responses non-differentiation or straight-lining when a battery of questions asks for ratings of multiple objects on the same response scale acquiescence response bias, which is the tendency to agree with any assertion, regardless of its content selecting the first reasonable looking option randomly selecting a response skipping items abandoning the survey or terminating the survey early rushing on online surveys choosing minimally acceptable answers when verbal answers are required Effort satisficing theory The Effort Satisficing Theory (EST) is a recently posited theory (from a 2015 University of Calgary dissertation) whose core purpose is for understanding, predicting and acceptably influencing effort-satisficing behavior and its impact on phenomena such as operational outcomes, organizational performance and economic performance.
After revision: Regarding survey answers, satisficing manifests in: choosing explicitly offered no-opinion or 'don't know' response option choosing socially desirable responses non-differentiation or straight-lining when a battery of questions asks for ratings of multiple objects on the same response scale acquiescence response bias, which is the tendency to agree with any assertion, regardless of its content selecting the first reasonable looking option randomly selecting a response skipping items abandoning the survey or terminating the survey early rushing on online surveys choosing minimally acceptable answers when verbal answers are Effort satisficing theory The Effort Satisficing Theory (EST) is a recently posited theory (from a 2015 University of Calgary dissertation) whose core purpose is for understanding, predicting and acceptably influencing effort-satisficing behavior and its impact on phenomena such as operational outcomes, organizational performance and economic performance.