{"id":119,"date":"2017-04-30T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lschreder\/?p=119"},"modified":"2017-05-01T04:16:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T04:16:45","slug":"quest-for-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lschreder\/2017\/04\/30\/quest-for-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Quest for Data"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Me after seeing survey answers <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

As a part of an upcoming research paper for my english class, I sent out my first survey and found some interesting data.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My first order of business was creating “good” survey questions<\/a>. This means that questions had to fit a certain set of criteria to be considered good to get the exact kind of data that you’re looking for in the research process— after I sent out my survey, I found that some questions were not well formulated giving me answers that I do not know how to interpret.<\/p>\n

So I began my survey with questions of age and gender to get a sense<\/strong> of who was filling it out<\/strong> since I put it on Facebook rather than distributing the survey\u00a0out to college aged people on campus.<\/p>\n

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I chose to distribute my survey on Facebook<\/strong> to find data for my research paper simply because..<\/p>\n

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  1. I didn’t want to go up to people in person and ask them to fill out my survey.<\/li>\n
  2. My friends in real life love me so they would fill out a survey on FB for me.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    It was as simple as that… or so I thought.<\/p>\n

    Then, there was a major mistake that turned into a “catastrophe”<\/strong> as one of my FB friends jokingly pointed out<\/p>\n

    The said catastrophe was a misplaced apostrophe on the word “you’re”. Instead of the correct way, I wrote “your’e”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    An honest mistake turned into heartless backlash from my so-called “friends” that I trusted to fill out the survey…. little did I know, such a seemingly small typing mistake would mean so much.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    I think that because my chosen audience was my Facebook friends, they were able to criticize a minor error because it was a my friends poking fun at me. It didn’t actually bother me because who really cares about a typo??\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    but… this does show the importance of how one creates a survey and it shows that little errors are important. Furthermore, my friends know who I am and would allow a mistake like this to pass, but if this was a more professional survey sent out by a stranger I would expect them to put enough care into designing it so that questions don’t have typos.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    So, the playful wrath of my friends gave me a lot information about them survey itself, not just what the data I got from the survey. My friends and distant relatives would take the survey because they like me despite an error but I think a stranger would feel much less inclined to do such a favor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Up next, more on the survey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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