When it comes to survey scales, best practice is to provide response options that reflect the full range of potential response options and to ensure you offer a balance of positive and negative options. But I’m sure you’ve all come across survey questions where it seems the intent of the survey designer is to skew … Read more
Today’s tips on survey design include: TIP 1: Be clear and transparent Consider how data may be misused (intentionally or unintentionally) and the potential harm this may cause your respondents. You are collecting individuals’ data and they have the right to know what is being collected, by whom, and for what purpose. You should also … Read more
How many times have you opened a dataset someone else has worked on and wondered “what happened here?!” For that matter, how many times have you opened your own dataset months after last working on it and forgotten how you cleaned your data? As you clean errors of transposition, copying, coding, routing, consistency, range, etc., … Read more