Friday, October 9, 2009

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.

4 comments:

  1. I agree with your post! That was not a good survey at all. I feel that it would be hard to get any information from that survey.

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  2. I completely agree with these respnones. this survey doesnt do a very good job at informing the participants about what to do or how to answer and it doesnt do a very good hob of gathering information for the people conducting the survey either.

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  3. I do agree with you on question 1. The entire question is completely vague. There seems to be little instruction, which is not helpful to those participating in the questionaire.

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  4. I agree about the first question on the survey, i believe it should have been a question asked to would be participants before they took the survey or else the whole survey would just be a waste of time since most questions are geared toward college students.

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