An "Explanations of Unemployment Scale" paradigm
Reducing "Bias in terms of culture" or even eliminating it (taking out culture itself, as Poortinga and van de Vijver have suggested) is paramount in Cross-Cultural research and is an essential aim in the respective Cross-Cultural statistical methods.
We have proposed (Mylonas & Furnham, 2014) a specific statistical method that takes advantage of Multidimensional Scaling techniques (Individual Differences Euclidean Distance, Weirdness Index) and of unwanted-variance-removal techniques (following Winer, 1971) so as to remedy for excess cultural variance that might plague Cross-Cultural research data.
The method is fully explained in the 2014 paper ( published in Educational and Psychological Measurement )[1] and is explicated further via a the Explanations of Unemployment Scale (Furnham 1982, 1988,[2] Mylonas et al., 2007, 2009, 2016,[3]).
A brief outline is given below:
[1] Mylonas, K. & Furnham, A. (2014). Bias in Terms of Culture and a Method for Reducing It: An Eight-Country "Explanations of Unemployment Scale" Study. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 74(1), 77-96. DoI: 10.1177/0013164413502669
[2] Furnham, A. (1982). Explanations of unemployment in Britain. European Journal of Social Psychology, 12, 335-352.
Furnham, A., & Hesketh, B. (1988). Explanations for unemployment in Great Britain and New Zealand. Journal of Social Psychology, 129,
169-181.
[3] Mylonas, K., Furnham, A., Alvaro, J-L., Papazoglou, S., Divale, W., Cretu, R.Z., Grad, H., Gondim, S., Leblebici, C., Filus, A., Moniz, A., Mitsostergiou, A., Kyvetou, G., Konstantinidis, E., & Boski, P. (2016) Explanations of unemployment: an eight-country comparison. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 6(9), 344-357. DoI: 10.6007/ IJARBSS/ v6-i9/2315 http: //hrmars.com/ index.php/ journals/ archive_detail/IJARBSS/156
Mylonas, K. (2007, May). Psychometric adaptation of the Furnham ‘‘Reasons of Unemployment’’ questionnaire for the Greek population. Paper presented at the 9th European Conference on Psychological Assessment, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Mylonas, K. (2009). Statistical analysis techniques based on cross-cultural research methods: Cross-cultural paradigms and intra-country comparisons. Psychology: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society (Special Issue): Cross-Cultural Psychology, 16, 185-204.