“Meh!”: Examining Midpoint Endorsement Habitude (MEH) in Survey Research

Despite the pervasive reliance on surveys in research, there is limited research regarding the potential ways in which responses to survey can be influenced by certain response styles. In this paper, we examined tendency to endorse the middle point of a scale: A Midpoint Endorsement Habitude (MEH). Using item-response tree modeling, we conducted 4 studies to examine and establish MEH as a trait-like construct. Specifically, we argue that MEH is...