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QuestionPro Survey Software Blog

The founders/employees of QuestionPro maintain an interesting company blog that, in addition to describing specific features of their service, also includes a variety of more useful, general information that anyone can theoretically use with any survey service. It’s always nice to see a company that isn’t just focused on getting more clients but is also willing to add to the general knowledge available online. Continue reading

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Optimal Design of Numeric Survey Questions

Have you ever gone to analyze the results of a survey in which you’ve asked for open-ended numeric information (that is, number based fields where respondents type in a number instead of choosing from a drop down list) only to find that many/some of your respondents have entered things like “10-20″ or “about 15?” You’re not alone. While many survey systems work to defeat these “alphanumeric elaborations,” Marak Fuchs published a paper last year in which he discussed the “optimal visual design of open-ended frequency questions in web surveys in order to reduce the percentage of alphanumeric elaborations and explicit extremes to frequency questions.” Continue reading

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20 Top Tips to Writing Effective Surveys

Martin Day, a Director of SurveyGalaxy, wrote an interesting article entitled "20 Top Tips to Writing Effective Surveys." The article is simply laid out, easy to read, and offers some pretty simple straightforward tips for writing online surveys (or offline … Continue reading

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