An experimental study of countermeasures against threats :
real-world effects meet treatment effects

J 2022

An experimental study of countermeasures against threats : real-world effects meet treatment effects

CHYTILEK, Roman; Miroslav MAREŠ; Jakub DRMOLA; Lenka HRBKOVÁ; Petra MLEJNKOVÁ et al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

An experimental study of countermeasures against threats : real-world effects meet treatment effects

Autoři

CHYTILEK, Roman ; Miroslav MAREŠ ; Jakub DRMOLA ; Lenka HRBKOVÁ ; Petra MLEJNKOVÁ; Zuzana ŠPAČKOVÁ a Michal TÓTH

Vydání

Quality & Quantity, Dordrecht, Springer, 2022, 0033-5177

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Nizozemské království

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 1.072 v roce 2017

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/22:00135001

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01354-4

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85125098480

Klíčová slova anglicky

Security; Experiments; Contamination; Pre-treatment; Treatment efect

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 14. 2. 2025 10:53, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

The experimental study of positions on policies and measures against various new types of threat is fast becoming a mainstream research practice. In this article we argue as follows: in security studies in particular, there is a risk that the experimental treatment is contaminated by subjects’ previous experience of the real world (‘contamination’), and this may substantially complicate the assessment of the size of the experimental treatment’s causal effect. We discuss ways to decrease the risk of uncontrolled contamination. Using two experimental case studies we show two typical cases of contamination in security studies (one, where the contamination of all treatments was extremely high, and another, where the level of contamination was unknown and might have varied across the experimental groups) and consider what this implies for the substantive results of the experiments. An analysis of contamination should become a routine, especially when reporting security experiments.

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An_experimental_study_of_countermeasures_against_threats.pdf

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Citovat

CHYTILEK, Roman; Miroslav MAREŠ; Jakub DRMOLA; Lenka HRBKOVÁ; Petra MLEJNKOVÁ; Zuzana ŠPAČKOVÁ a Michal TÓTH. An experimental study of countermeasures against threats : real-world effects meet treatment effects. Quality & Quantity. Dordrecht: Springer, 2022, roč. 56, č. 6, s. 4825-4840. ISSN 0033-5177. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01354-4.

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CHYTILEK, Roman; Miroslav MAREŠ; Jakub DRMOLA; Lenka HRBKOVÁ; Petra MLEJNKOVÁ; Zuzana ŠPAČKOVÁ a Michal TÓTH. An experimental study of countermeasures against threats : real-world effects meet treatment effects. \textit{Quality \&{} Quantity}. Dordrecht: Springer, 2022, roč.~56, č.~6, s.~4825-4840. ISSN~0033-5177. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01354-4.

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