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  • 6 - From H. Russell Bernard, Peter Killworth, David Kronenfeld, and Lee Sailer, “The Problem of Informant Accuracy”

  • from II - Early Foundations
  • Edited by Mario L. Small, Harvard University, Massachusetts, Brea L. Perry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Bernice Pescosolido, Indiana University, Bloomington, Edward B. Smith, Northwestern University, Illinois
  • Book:
    Personal Networks
    Published online:
    01 October 2021
    Print publication:
    16 September 2021, pp 163-173

  • Summary

    This chapter reviews all of the articles on informant accuracy produced by Bernard, Killworth and their colleagues, as well as the rebuttal articles that followed from various authors. Several important technological and methodological advancements came from this line of research that have had an enormous impact social network analysis and other disciplines. The second half of the chapter examines the implications of this research on personal network data collection and analysis and the reliability of results from those studies. A key question addressed in this chapter is whether the compositional and structural properties of personal networks, as reported by ego, are reliable given what we know about informant accuracy. I consider whether personal networks represent the real social context surrounding ego, or only their perception of that context, and how this affects the outcome variables that can be predicted with personal network data.