Questions tagged [survey]
For questions about using this technique as a research or assessment method, and the processes involved in scoring/statistical analyses of surveys
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How does one validate a psychometric instrument
Any science has to be built on the scientific method. While in all fields there are novel phenomena that are not yet understood, an essential step to doing robust science is understanding how one's ...
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Comparing factor analyses from different surveys
I am trying to replicate a study that used factor analysis on a survey to identify latent constructs. So I administered a similar survey and also performed a factor analysis. How do I compare the ...
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What is a typical response rate to a survey of academics?
Suppose I sent out a survey to all of the authors who published at major venues in my field, and N% of them responded.
For what N would this be considered a success?
For what N would the response bias ...
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How do you export the summed score of a category on Qualtrics?
I'm doing some psych research for a class with a qualtrics survey. As a part of this survey, I have a quantitative performance task for which correct answers receive a score of "1" and ...
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In technologically advanced countries, do most autistic adults not know they are autistic?
I understand this is not an easy question to address. There are differences between the terms autism and Aspergers both in public perception and in the professional world, and it's a continuum or ...
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Types of Research for comparing two Groups [closed]
i am planning to do an empirical research for my Thesis, which is about the influence of exercise on the psychological and subjective well-being of individuals (60-90 years of age).
hypothesis: ...
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Competitiveness Analysis
I have developed a fitness website where users can exercise in a video call. My claim is that the website i designed increases the level of competition when exercising together with a peer compared to ...
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Does the wording of official ethnicity questions influence perceptions in the longer term?
It is well known that the sequence in which questions are asked in a survey can affect answers as earlier questions can influence the frame of mind in which a respondent answers a subsequent question. ...
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Method and sample size to test validity and reliability of a scale/ survey
I am working on a project where I need to use a scale to measure certain psychological and political positions. I have a questionnaire that is used in the US, and whose validity was tested there quite ...
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How does cognitive load and learning effect compare in carousel vs. matrix views of a likert study?
I am looking for any papers or analysis on the use of a carousel vs. a matrix layout for a likert-style study. I have the broad impression a carousel is used for images or certain studies where each ...
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How many answer choices is too many answer choices?
When building a survey, what is the maximum number of response choices in a question? In the interest of reducing cognitive load and/or avoid choice paralysis.
I couldn't find any research on this ...
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Length of questionnaire for long-string analysis
I have a dataset that I am trying to screen for careless responding. I am having a little trouble finding research on what is the minimum length that a questionnaire needs to be in order to do long ...
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Is there a term for a situation when questions in an anonymous survey may alienate the answers of the survey?
A friend was complaining to me the other day about a anonymous survey that they started to answer online which made them feel as if the survey was making negative presumptions about them which led to ...
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What is the name of the survey question style that forces a choice between non-opposite pairs of items, and why is it used?
I've seen personality tests and industrial / organizational psychology tests that force one to choose between non-opposing concepts. What is the name of this question style, and what are the reasons ...
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How exactly should the items in the MEC-SPQ be rotated?
citing from the usage instructions of https://academic.csuohio.edu/kneuendorf/frames/MECFull.pdf
"The MEC-SPQ was designed for immediate assignment after media
exposure. Starting with ...
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On a variation of Trolley's problem. How to explain the survey's results?
It is not long since a friend of mine reported about an experiment they would do in their philosophy class, or rather, in their philosophy classes. At that time, his and the parallel class were ...
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Where to get psychology assessment resources to put into my website?
I'm not a psychologist and would like to know how to get a psychological assessment to put into my website? Is there a public assessment with question data and scoring logic?
I'm sorry if the ...
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How do you encourage participants to pay attention while completing online studies?
I'm conducting research where participants come into a lab and complete a study entirely on a computer (about 10-15 minutes). This means that informed consent, instructions, manipulations, and ...
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What pro- or anti-environmental behaviors are feasible to measure objectively rather than with self-report?
One of the central challenges in understanding pro-environmental behavior is measurement. Currently, most researchers (including myself) lean on self-report of behavior.
I'm looking for a brainstorm. ...
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Survey questions to test competitiveness
I'm running an experiment and am suspecting that competitive people may respond differently to experimental treatments compared to non-competitive people.
To determine whether a person has a ...
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How to ask in a survey for emotional vs. rational personality
In a survey I would like to find out the correlation between different factors based on the personal dimension "being more emotional vs. rational".
Are there any known studies with items that could be ...
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What statistics can compare individual survey responses & others that were measured as a group (from which we need to extract individual responses)?
The organization I belong to studies indigenous populations through primarily survey research. One study for example aims to identify the relationship between culture and the evaluation of odors. We ...
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Participant compensation and engagement in online studies
In research studies, it is common to compensate the participant for their time/effort by giving them monetary compensation. Is there any research on whether the amount someone is paid for ...
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Bias in survey questions based on either positive or negative wording
I have this impression that if you ask respondents in a survey, questions such as "do you like the item X/ person X" or "which one of the two variations do you like more", or "what in particular would ...
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Name of false answer effect in surveys
I'm looking for research I've read about a well known effect that happens when participants complete a survey, where they do not answer what they think is right, but what they think the researchers ...
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Desigining an online survey with two levels of randomisation
I'm trying to create an online survey where the participant hears a series of randomly determined sound files and rates each of them on a likert scale.
We will have around 1000 participants, each ...
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Gamifying surveys by measuring the ability to discern popular taste
I am working on a crowdsourcing platform where participants are given a set of choices between two items (for instance, books or movies). Out of each pair, they are to select an item which they think ...
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How to understand what a low score or high score is for a particular measure?
I am trying to use a survey tool to recommend a particular decision. In my case, I am using the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI; link here: https://gosling.psy.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/...
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How to frame survey questions to get honest response?
I'm doing a (statistical) survey on whether or not international students at my college receive satisfactory grants. Here's the deal, I don't expect them to say yes it is satisfactory. I need a way to ...
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What factors are used in studies quantifying and studying mood?
I'm a data scientist by trade, and am gearing up to study the impacts of behaviors on mood. It's a domain specific study. I'm well versed in the statistics, but I need to record data that can be ...
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How to randomise order of survey items in Qualtrics where some items have to appear together?
I have a quick question regarding survey construction that I'm hoping to get some clarification on.
Here's my current survey set-up:
Question 1
Question 1a (i.e., a question that relates to ...
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International Physical Activity Questionnaire and cognitive function
I'm looking for research that has examined the link between physical activity (as measured by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire [1] specifically) and cognitive function (any domain is ...
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What software to use for psychology questionnaire?
I'm doing a schoolwork about Spiral Dynamics and last part is doing practical research and everything is completed except we yet didnt found any digital platform with which we can conduct our research....
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Exercise and physical activity questionnaire
I'm wondering if there exists a validated questionnaire designed to assess the duration/intensity/type of physical activity someone has taken part in over the past 1-3 days?
I've seen many ...
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Rationale behind an “all-or-nothing” design for a test for the purposes of diagnosis and epidemology
In the Autism-Spectrum Quotient test, the subject is confronted with fifty statements such as:
I don’t particularly enjoy reading fiction.
I prefer to do things the same way over and over again.
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Where could I collect UK participants for my survey?
I am looking for survey participants from the UK. Is there a place I can publish my survey in order to get UK participants?
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Scales in Oral vs. Paper Surveys
I am designing a survey that will have to be administered over the phone. While I have used 7-point Likerts on many occasions, saying "On a scale of one to seven" out loud makes it seem, suddenly, ...
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Biases in subjective survey
What are the commonly observed biases in survey and are there any statistical or non-statistical methods to avoid it?
I am conducting a survey for automobile seat comfort, I think my current ...
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Survey tool with clickable version of the "Geneva emotion wheel"
For my master thesis i would like to make a survey on user emotions on using a web user interface. The proband should write down his emotions using the "Geneva emotion wheel". (More information here: ...
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Ground a student survey in academic literature
I'm planning to do a survey with students (age around 16) with questions/answer-possibilities that have been 'proven' to be significant indicators of student success/good grades. So, I'm not really ...
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Can I use Mechanical Turk for a longitudinal study?
My thesis looks at depression and social support. My design involves participants answering taking a survey every other day for a total of 10 times. Is is the same set of questions that they will ...
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What's the effect of color on responses to a Likert scale?
We're implementing comment cards on our site that contain a simple Likert-type scale that uses colored buttons (red, orange, yellow, light green, green), to denote the range of negative to positive ...
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How do you make psychology experiments? [closed]
Have you used Inquisit, E-Prime, DirectRT, or Qualtrics to make psychology experiments? I worked in a psychology lab as a programmer and I thought these programs felt very outdated and not user ...
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Are there any free online questionnaire/survey sites that also measure the time it takes for participants to answer each question?
I'm doing a research experiment where I'm trying to measure the time it takes for participants to answer certain questions in an online questionnaire/survey. More specifically, I will be asking ...
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Measuring attitude towards learning another language?
Does a validated scale to asses a person's attitude towards learning a new language exist?
So far I have only found the following questionnaires:
Language Learning Attitudes Questionnaire
Readiness ...
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How to obtain well-written demographic items?
I've noticed over the years supervising student projects that it is actually surprisingly difficult to write good demographic items. Specifically, I'm thinking about questions related to gender, age, ...
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How to know whether a methodological technique is quantitative or qualitative?
How do you classify NASA TLX, ANOVA, Matched Pair T-Test, Self-Efficacy Scale, and System Usability Scale?
Are these types of data analysis considered quantitative or qualitative?
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How can items from a general self-esteem/efficacy measure be changed to measure context specific self-esteem/efficacy?
I am very interested in a survey employing a Likert type scale in my research. I have come across the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. I would like to use this scale to get a sense of how subjects feel ...
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Does the type of informational representation of a question in a research survey affect answers?
Does the type of data format used to represent questions in empirical research affect the depth and quality of that research? For example, most questionnaires use written text as a data format. Would ...
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How can I structure this question to check for availability bias?
I'm preparing a survey right now and one of the questions I'm looking to answer is: How much does availability bias effect the decision making process for [given behaviour]?
My question is: What's ...