Procedures for Computing Indices of Careless Responding
careless: A package providing procedures for computing indices of care...
Calculates the even-odd consistency score
Calculates the intra-individual response variability (IRV)
Identifies the longest string of identical consecutive responses for e...
Find and graph Mahalanobis Distance (D) and flag potential outliers.
Computes the psychometric antonym score
Computes the psychometric synonym/antonym score
Compute the correlations between all possible item pairs and order the...
When taking online surveys, participants sometimes respond to items without regard to their content. These types of responses, referred to as careless or insufficient effort responding, constitute significant problems for data quality, leading to distortions in data analysis and hypothesis testing, such as spurious correlations. The 'R' package 'careless' provides solutions designed to detect such careless / insufficient effort responses by allowing easy calculation of indices proposed in the literature. It currently supports the calculation of longstring, even-odd consistency, psychometric synonyms/antonyms, Mahalanobis distance, and intra-individual response variability (also termed inter-item standard deviation). For a review of these methods, see Curran (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.07.006>.