On Nov 25, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Elizabeth Kell wrote:
Does anyone have lessons learned they are willing to share from their own attempts at Mulder-style quant work, in particular in crafting and deploying surveys? :)
I would *highly recommend* you not try to do this with surveys. It's very easy to create a survey where the participant actually answers a different question than the one you think you're asking. When that happens, you can't trust any of the data you've collected, because you're not doing an apples-to-apples comparison.
Instead, I recommend discussion-based interviews. This is time consuming, but produces far more reliable data.
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