The principal of a middle school wanted to learn more about her students' school attendance. She crafted a 15-minute survey with several different response formats asking about her students' views on truancy and how much they liked attending school. In order to ensure her students would answer as accurately as possible, she included a note on the first page of the survey explaining that students' attendance records would be accessed as part of her study. Which technique was the principal using?
A) Satisficing
B) Using filter questions
C) Bogus pipeline
D) Assessing acquiescence bias

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The principal is using the bogus pipeline technique, which involves creating a false impression that the respondent's answers will be verified or checked against some other source. In this case, the note on the first page of the survey stating that attendance records would be accessed creates a false impression that the students' answers would be verified against their attendance records, thus encouraging them to answer more honestly.

The Principal of a Middle School Wanted to Learn More