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Sociology 9
Writing Awesome Questions
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
02/28/2007

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Response rate
Definition
number of people in a survey divided by number selected
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Significance of response rate
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generalizability assumes 100% response rate, affects sample size, (required sample size/probably response rate = total sample size)
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Close ended questions need to be mutually exclusive and exhaustive
Definition
only one catagory to fit and they need to fall into at least one catagory
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Respondents must be competent to answer
Definition
needs to have sufficient knowledge to answer
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Double barrelled questions
Definition
you can agree with one part of the question, but maybe not another
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questions should be short, unbiased, relevant, clear
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yep
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Respondants must be willing to answer
Definition
Or else they won't.
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Avoid negatives
Definition
don't do it
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matrix questions
Definition
one scale for multiple questions, can be used for likert like things
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Contingency
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"if you answered yes, answer this too"
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