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What kind of relationship between interviewer and respondent produces the best interview data? The authors develop a model to answer this question in terms of the social distance between interviewer and respondent, concluding that both too much and too little social distance will produce biasing effects.
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Dohrenwend et al. (1968) studied this question.
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