单词 | non-response |
释义 | non-responsen. Failure or refusal to respond or to respond satisfactorily; the condition of not responding. Now: esp. a failure to respond to a survey or questionnaire. ΚΠ 1832 Cases Court of Session 10 458 Whether the defenders, by accepting the non-response, were not proved to have waived the enquiry? 1862 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 25 529 With the non-response of the Manchester market, and the accounts of Federal reverses before Richmond, the buoyancy of prices was arrested. 1919 Sci. Monthly Dec. 539 Functional or physiological inertia is that property of living matter which maintains the status quo ante, namely non-response to a stimulus tending to arouse a response. 1985 P. H. Mann Methods Social Investig. (ed. 2) 123 A further problem in sampling..is non-response... Questionnaires sent by post are not returned and interviews are refused. 1999 Public Opinion Q. 63 577 While the problem of nonresponse is not a new one, it remains a central concern of public opinion researchers. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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