Eliciting probabilistic expectations with visual aids in developing countries: how sensitive are answers to variations in elicitation design ?
Adeline Delavande (),
Xavier Gine and
David McKenzie
No 5458, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank
Abstract:
Eliciting subjective probability distributions in developing countries is often based on visual aids such as beans to represent probabilities and intervals on a sheet of paper to represent the support. The authors conducted an experiment in India that tested the sensitivity of elicited expectations to variations in three facets of the elicitation methodology: the number of beans, the design of the support (pre-determined or self-anchored), and the ordering of questions. The results show remarkable robustness to variations in elicitation design. Nevertheless, the added precision offered by using more beans and a larger number of intervals with a predetermined support improves accuracy.
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Date: 2010-10-01
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