Today we learned about how to construct a survey for our Survey report assignment. Using Google Forms, we were trying to learn how to make a survey both succinct and effective. Since students these days have extremely short attention spans, it may be hard for them to focus on completing a survey that exceeds even 5 minutes in one sitting. This is why we have to cut out unnecessary questions for our surveys and include cleverly stated questions that could give more than one answer.

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However, if you make the survey too short and easy, you run the risk of having insufficient data for a write up. One also has to try to avoid potential biases by wording questions in a non-misleading way. One of the most relevant biases that relates to surveys is response bias, this is the notion that people give you answers that they think the researcher wants, thus losing the authentic voice in the process. This is why I decided to frame my questions in a clear and concise way, to avoid a question with too many words, decreasing the likelihood of misinterpretation or overthinking.

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