| Sumario: | Interviewing is a most widely used and accepted tool for information gathering in the social sciences. Nevertheless, many social science researchers have indicated the considerable problems in its use. In particular, they have pointed to, and have cautioned others to be on guard against, the many cultural and personality influences which impinge on the "ongoing social processes within the humans who operate in the interviewing situations of various types." Many have reported on the disturbing influences and distortions growing out of the social interaction between respondent and interviewer; they have pointed to language barriers, status, class, and educational differences, ethnic differences, sex and age influences, residential differences, and a host of other intervening variables which produce interviewer effect and bias.
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