# kaal:claim:2732915-007

**Claim.** Guaranteeing complete anonymity is essential to obtaining a sufficient response rate from private fund advisers, but that guarantee prevents a broader descriptive statistical analysis of the sample.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- survey studies of private fund advisers who fear identification

**Source quote.**

> The anonymity of survey responses did not allow a broader descriptive statistical analysis of the sample. The author guaranteed complete anonymity to all survey respondents, which is an essential element in obtaining a sufficient response rate.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Private Fund Industry Five Years after the Dodd-Frank Act – A Survey Study* (2016), III. Methodology, page 17

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Private Fund Industry Five Years after the Dodd-Frank Act – A Survey Study (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2732915

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**Failure mode.** Anonymity versus descriptive depth tradeoff  (family: research-design-limitation)

**Topics.** empirical-evidence, research-methods

**Keywords.** survey-methodology, anonymity, response-rate, research-design-tradeoff

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