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Presentation matters: Number of attributes presented impacts estimated preferences
Author(s) -
Byrd Elizabeth S.,
Widmar Nicole J. Olynk,
Gramig Benjamin M.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
agribusiness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.57
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1520-6297
pISSN - 0742-4477
DOI - 10.1002/agr.21527
Subject(s) - econlit , purchasing , preference , presentation (obstetrics) , task (project management) , marketing , taste , statistics , econometrics , economics , mathematics , psychology , business , medline , medicine , management , neuroscience , political science , law , radiology
Best–worst scaling is an increasingly employed methodology in which both the number of attributes shown in each choice task and the number of tasks can vary. Researchers face a tradeoff between the number of attributes shown per question and the total number of questions. U.S. residents ( n = 818) were randomly assigned to see one of two best–worst presentations of the same six meat attributes (taste, convenience, safety, animal welfare, price, and nutrition). Significant differences were found in the estimated preference shares when respondents were shown two versus three attributes at a time. Both presentations ranked safety as the most important, taste as the second most important, and convenience as the least important meat purchasing attribute. However, the distributions of most of the preference share estimates were statistically different. Differences in preferences share estimates resulting from the presentation of questions has the potential to influence marketing, retailing, and other decisions. [EconLit citations: C83, M31, Q13]