Unobtrusive Measures

Webb, E. J., Campbell, D. T., Schwartz, R. D., & Sechrest, L. (1966). Unobtrusive Measures: Nonreactive Research in the Social Sciences.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1966

Link

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/unobtrusive-measures-nonreactive-research-social-sciences

Cited from

ethnography_qualitative_methods

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Triangulation
  • The examination of temporal, spatial, or contextual variations to assess whether findings hold across different settings and times

Mechanisms

• Passive or Remote Sensing
  • It sits in the tradition of unobtrusive, nonreactive measurement — inferring state from traces a system leaves rather than from a probe pushed into it.

    This sourceDescribes unobtrusive, nonreactive measurement that infers conditions from physical or archival traces instead of directly probing subjects.

Verification

Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.

Does it back the claim? Not recorded. Neither this nor any other of the 2 citations of this work carries a recorded support check.

Was it audited? Yes. A second, independent pass read the citation against the article text and recorded a verdict.

Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.

See how references were verified.

Registry ID ref:1e2fe80536e5 · see in the full table