An experimental study of countermeasures against threats : real-world effects meet treatment effects
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F22%3A00119998" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/22:00119998 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-022-01354-4" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-022-01354-4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01354-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11135-022-01354-4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
An experimental study of countermeasures against threats : real-world effects meet treatment effects
Original language description
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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/TL01000398" target="_blank" >TL01000398: Experimental research on individual responses to threats in cyberspace</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Quality & Quantity
ISSN
0033-5177
e-ISSN
1573-7845
Volume of the periodical
neuveden
Issue of the periodical within the volume
neuveden
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1-16
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
999