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Bong, Chih How

Topic Weight Topic Terms
0.237 identity norms identification symbolic community help sense european social important verification set identities form obtained
0.180 validity reliability measure constructs construct study research measures used scale development nomological scales instrument measurement
0.112 design artifacts alternative method artifact generation approaches alternatives tool science generate set promising requirements evaluation

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Larsen, Kai R. 1
Construct identity fallacy (CIF) 1 construct identity detector (CID) 1 construct validity 1 inter-nomological network 1
jingle and jangle fallacy 1 latent semantic analysis (LSA) 1 nomological networks 1 natural language processing (NLP) 1
synonymy and polysemy 1

Articles (1)

A Tool for Addressing Construct Identity in Literature Reviews and Meta-Analyses (MIS Quarterly, 2016)
Authors: Abstract:
    The problem of detecting whether two behavioral constructs reference the same real-world phenomenon has existed for over 100 years. Discordant naming of constructs is here termed the construct identity fallacy (CIF). We designed and evaluated the construct identity detector (CID), the first tool with large-scale construct identity detection properties and the first tool that does not require respondent data. Through the adaptation and combination of different natural language processing (NLP) algorithms, six designs were created and evaluated against human expert decisions. All six designs were found capable of detecting construct identity, and a design combining two existing algorithms significantly outperformed the other approaches. A set of follow-up studies suggests the tool is valuable as a supplement to expert efforts in literature review and meta-analysis. Beyond design science contributions, this article has important implications related to the taxonomic structure of social and behavioral science constructs, for the jingle and jangle fallacy, the core of the Information Systems nomological network, and the inaccessibility of social and behavioral science knowledge. In sum, CID represents an important, albeit tentative, step toward discipline-wide identification of construct identities.