Recommendations for use of balanced presentation order of terms in CATA questions |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Xi''an Jiaotong University, Xi''an, Shaanxi 710049, China;2. Tianjin Key Laboratory for Prevention and Control of Occupational and Environmental Hazards, Logistics University of Chinese People''s Armed Police Forces, Tianjin 300309, China;3. Tianjin Key Lab of Industrial Microbiology, College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjing 300457, China;4. Tuanbowa Development Company of Dagang Oilfield Corporation, Tianjin 300000, China |
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Abstract: | Balancing presentation order of the terms of a CATA question between and within participants has been recommended to minimize the influence of primacy bias on consumer responses and maintain their attention throughout the task. Compared to balancing presentation order only between participants, this experimental factor may make the task more difficult/tedious for participants and shift their attention away from the sensory characterization task with possible detrimental effects for sample discrimination. The aim of the present work was to compare sensory product characterizations obtained using CATA questions in which presentation order of the terms was balanced between participants with those obtained using CATA questions in which presentation order of the terms was balanced both between and within participants. Nine studies with 1028 consumers involving different product categories were conducted. Between-subjects experimental designs were used in all studies. No major differences were found in the sensory product characterizations obtained using presentation orders balanced between participants (BB) and both between and within participants (BW). |
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Keywords: | CATA Consumer research Research methodology Sensory characterization Consumer profiling |
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