Who escapes the personal investigator?

Abstract

An attempt to reinterview a group of some 1800 individuals who had been previously interviewed and about whom considerable was known, permitted an analysis of differences between those individuals who were successfully reinterviewed, those who refused to be reinterviewed, and those who were unavailable. While there were striking differences among the 3 groups, the number of persons who could not be reinterviewed was so small as to be of little importance. Furthermore, the personal characteristics and opinions of those individuals who refused to be reinterviewed and those who were unavailable appeared to cancel each other. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)