FTC Pretest Addendum to Fraud Experiment Instrument

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Fraud Susceptibility Experiment Instrument
(Pretest Addendum)

Disclosure of Estimated Burden
The estimated average burden associated with this information collection is 30 minutes per pretesting respondent. Burden estimates include the time for reviewing instructions and completing
the information collection, which includes both this addendum and the main questionnaire. A
Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and an organization (or a person) is not required to
respond to a collection of information, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
Comments concerning the accuracy of this burden estimate and suggestions for reducing this
burden should be directed to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington, D.C. 20503, and to Patrick McAlvanah, Federal Trade
Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Mail Stop NJ-4136, Washington, D.C. 20580.

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PRETEST QUESTIONNAIRE
Now we want to ask you some general questions about the experiment.
(Pretest_1)

Were any of the instructions or questions difficult to understand or confusing?
a. Yes –> [Continue]
b. No –> [Skip to (Pretest_5)]

(Pretest_2)

What instructions or questions were difficult to understand or confusing?

(Pretest_3)

Why were these instructions/questions difficult to understand or confusing?
[Probe as necessary to better understand what confused the subject and why.
Probe to see if alternative wording would be more understandable.]

(Pretest_4)

Were any other instructions or questions difficult to understand or confusing?
a. Yes –> [Go to (Pretest_2)]
b. No –> [Continue]

(Pretest_5)

Do you have any (other) comments about the experiment?
a. Yes –> [Continue]
b. No –> [Skip to (Pretest_7)]

(Pretest_6)

What comments do you have about the experiment?

(Pretest_7)

That concludes our questions. Thank you for participating in the experiment.

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