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Breaking the Ceiling: Mitigating Extreme Response Bias in Surveys Using an Open-Ended Adaptive-Testing System and LLM-Based Response Analysis

2026-01-13

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Assessments of extreme psychological constructs often face a persistent challenge: the ceiling effect, in which a significant proportion of respondents select the highest score on a scale, thus obscuring an important part of the population's variation. This effect may have profound consequences in studies of extreme psychological constructs. To address this limitation, we introduce a novel framework that inte...

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10.20944/preprints202601.0952.v1
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