Collection of Implementations for Indices of Careless Responding.

Careless or insufficient effort responding in surveys, i.e. responding to items without regard to their content, is a common occurrence in surveys. These types of responses constitute significant problems for data quality leading to distortions in data analysis and hypothesis testing, such as spurious correlations. The R package careless provides solutions designed to detect such careless / insufficient effort responses by allowing easy calculation of indices proposed in the literature. It currently supports the calculation of Longstring, Even-Odd Consistency, Psychometric Synonyms/Antonyms, Mahalanobis Distance, and Intra-individual Response Variability (also termed Inter-item Standard Deviation).

Current version is 1.2.2

To install this package:

1. Install and load the devtools package (if necessary). In R, paste the following into the console, note, you may need to update R or R Studio first:

install.packages('devtools')
library('devtools')

3. Download and install the careless package from the Github source code.

install_github('ryentes/careless')
library('careless')

Yentes, R.D., & Wilhelm, F. (2018) careless: Procedures for computing indices of careless responding. R packages version 1.2.0 url: https://github.com/ryentes/careless

This package is free and open source software, licensed under MIT License.