Surveys for my class at ASU.. I need your help guys!!

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sundevil88

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Hello fellow aquaria enthusiasts :)

I am a student at Arizona State University and I am gathering data for a computer information systems class that I am in. My group and I are putting together a database to analyze information on any topic we want. We chose to make ours about how people these days are ditching custom ways of watching movies and readings books, to making the switch to online versions (downloading, streaming, Kindles) etc. We are interested to see if there has been a switch due to the technology we have today.

If you could take 5 minutes to take these surveys, it would really help us out

Thank you guys in advance! The more people who take these surveys, the better our sample size will be.. So lets try to get TONS of responses please! :thumbsup:

Movie Survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HWHXNZR

Book Survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HSV2C6J
 
done..quick and easy:)
 
I did it! But why do your ages stop at 30 and over?
:grinyes:
There is life after 30!!!







Just teasing you sundevil88!
 
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Bubbles2112 said:
I did it! But why do your ages stop at 30 and over?
:grinyes:
There is life after 30!!!







Just teasing you sundevil88!
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LOL honestly, I really don't know. We were targeting the age groups that would most likely still be in college so basically we came to the agreement that we should top it off at 30 and just add the (+) for those individuals who are older. Nothing against older people tho :D


And thank you very much to those of you who took the time out of your day to answer the surveys. I really really do appreciate it, and Im sure my group members do too!! :)


As of right now, we are at 56 total responses.. Lets keep them coming!! :woot:
 
Question # 17 on survey 2 above is badly phrased by being in the negative. It makes an answer of "no" confusing since that makes a double negative. You want all questions and answers to be absoluely clear in meaning to the respondent (us) so that the answers will accurately portray the respondent's intent.

I know you can't revise a survey once it's in the field, so this is just a suggestion for future work. It's a fascinating business, I used to work in it (as an interviewer administering surveys, not writing them).

just trying to improve your grades here. Good luck. :)
 
XanAvaloni said:
Question # 17 on survey 2 above is badly phrased by being in the negative. It makes an answer of "no" confusing since that makes a double negative. You want all questions and answers to be absoluely clear in meaning to the respondent (us) so that the answers will accurately portray the respondent's intent.

I know you can't revise a survey once it's in the field, so this is just a suggestion for future work. It's a fascinating business, I used to work in it (as an interviewer administering surveys, not writing them).

just trying to improve your grades here. Good luck. :)
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Thank you for catching that!! Can i ask, how would you better rephrase it?

And i truly appreciate your help, I still believe we can go back in and edit it tho because it gives you the option to do so.

:)
 
Sundevil, I forget the exact question now but it was something like "Do you not do (whatever activity, buy books in physical bookstores maybe) this any more?" You just want to recast it in the positive, as in "Do you still (or "do you plan in the next 6 months") do activity X.

But don't change it now, it will make the results statistically meaningless. You can't have half your responses be to one question and half to a different one. The standard response of the interviewer to a respondents' question of "What does this question mean" is "It means whatever you understand it to mean, sir/ma'am." and then repeat the question verbatim as written. It is the writer's job to eliminate ambiguity as much as possible given the topic.

At least it is in social-science research surveys, which is what I worked on. A lot of government and university agencies used this company. We did not do politics, which is a whole 'nother area as far as surveys and polling are concerned. But very lucrative if you have the stomach for it. :)
 
Done. I think your results may be a bit off. Some of the folks making that technology switch are way beyond the top end of your age catagories. Much less expensive for a family to rent/download/stream a movie than haul everyone to the theater. And I feel, you are more apt to find folks reading for entertainment before and after college, not so much while in it and the time it demands.
 
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