Sampling Procedures

If money were no object, I would select UWG students as my target population. I would then use systematic sampling. I know you're probably thinking I missed the point of this question. But I truly would use systematic sampling because it's the easiest. I would take the list of student e-mails at the school and select every 40th name on the list. This would be simple and random.

I will actually vote that my group use either this method or simple random sample. We will do like just about everyone else and take our 100 surveys each to our classes and ask our classes to take our survey. Slightly harder for some students because of on-line classes. This is once again because it is easier for our group.

Bad Questionaire

Question 1

Question 1 should be structured differently. It gives no instructions as to what to do if you are "not" a college student. Because if you are not a college student then you can't answer questions 2, 3, 7, or 8. I would have set it up like this: Are you a college student? (If no skip to question ___" that way the respondent knows what to do.

Question #3

In this question it lists two extremes as responses then gives the respondent a few blanks in between them. This is extremely confusing. It gives no scale as to what extreme the blanks are. I would have set it up like this: Extremely Interesting, Interesting, Indifferent, Boring, Very Boring. This gives the respondent a scale to work with.

Question #5

Yet again the possible answers are confusing. It limits the respondent to only 6 choices. All of us who own a car know there are a lot more than six things we hate about our car. Maybe we don't like that we don't have power windows. That's not even an option. They should have had the choice "Other: _______" and then left a blank after it so that the respondent could fill it in.