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...RANDOLPH BIAS Williamson...
...clinical psychologists who went with the group conducted a clinical interview designed to give personality data. This would show the subject's attitude to the status of a displaced person--something which might bias his opinion toward Russia or, on the contrary, help recall his day-to-day life in the Soviet Union...
Hindered by Bias...
...Bias, the ever-present hindrance in dealing with people who have left a country either by force or their own volition, was met in several ways, according to Alfred G. Meyer, research fellow at the center. In many cases, the response to questioning by emigres was disciplined by a desire to get into the United States. Many thought that they would make their emigration easier by answering in a way favorable to U.S. policies and ideas...
...throughout the interviews, the researchers were constantly aware of the D.P.'s bias toward the Soviet Union. Always a question remained in the examiner's mind, according to Meyer, as to how representative the Displaced Person, an exile or at least an expatriate, is of the Soviet society in general...