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<\/p>\nOh surveys….I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a million of them at this point. \u00a0I’ve seen surveys\u00a0in almost all of my Facebook groups, my newsfeed, and with people knocking on my door asking me to answer theirs. \u00a0I’m kind of over surveys to be honest. \u00a0I’ve answered a couple of them, only because my friends made me, but otherwise I am not interested. \u00a0Here are two of the many that I have seen just in the past week:<\/p>\n
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Honestly, I did not answer either of these and I find them annoying. \u00a0So when I found out that I had to do a survey, I was very worried. \u00a0I know that I am not the only one who does not like these surveys, so I knew it was going to be challenging for me to get a significant amount of people to take my survey. \u00a0I also knew that it would be important for me to make it short and sweet so that people would not get bored while taking the survey.<\/p>\n
After talking about surveys in class though, I got a bunch of great ideas! \u00a0I had always thought of these surveys of boring, but I realized that they can actually help a lot. \u00a0These surveys are to gather data so that the collectors of the data can better their research. \u00a0This data might also raise new questions to research, which could better the paper.<\/p>\n
I know that these surveys will help me to better my paper and my research.<\/p>\n
I realized that these surveys are not<\/em> stupid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
They are extremely helpful, and although the amount of them posted\u00a0can be annoying, they are necessary. \u00a0I even found some ideas of how to make good questions that people will answer:<\/p>\n
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- make them clear<\/li>\n
- ask ONLY one thing<\/li>\n
- don\u2019t ask questions that the respondent can\u2019t answer<\/li>\n
- short questions are best<\/li>\n
- start with demographic and neutral questions<\/li>\n
- put \u201ccontroversial\u201d questions at the end<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Hopefully people will respond to my surveys, and if not, I’ll just force my friends to do it.<\/p>\n
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Oh surveys….I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a million of them at this point. \u00a0I’ve seen surveys\u00a0in almost all of my Facebook groups, my newsfeed, and with people knocking on my door asking me to answer theirs. \u00a0I’m kind of over surveys to be honest. \u00a0I’ve answered a couple of them, only because my friends made … Continue reading