Survey Monkey questionHello Carol My students have used surveymonkey and now use qualtrics to run experiments. All of these systems allow some sort of random assignment. For example, we have used a question (is your birth an odd or even day) to divide participants into two groups. typically we flip (reverse) the branches each day. To block randomize, you can use answers to questions about sex of participant.
It is also possible to use one "survey" to randomly assign participants to conditions like those you describe, each of which as its own url (an idea noted by others in the listserv). It is also easy to combine the data sets. Do not send out links for the individual conditions and expect to get approximately equal numbers of participants in each condition. Participants will forward links to friends. It is much better to have participants request to participate and get a link or to use a randomizing survey (above). Finally, we have found that you can set up a separate email (such as gmail) for a particular study. Students who recruit through the departmental sign up board and social networks (facebook, myspace) have gotten 200-300 participants within less than a week. blaine ----- Original Message ----- From: DeVolder Carol L To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 12:15 PM Subject: [tips] Survey Monkey question Hi, I have a question about using Survey Monkey to collect certain types of data. For example I have a student who wanted to present one of 4 different vignettes to each participant, and following the vignette would be a questionnaire about the person depicted in the vignette. This was to be a study on stereotypes, if that makes it any more clear. The problem is that Survey Monkey doesn't allow randomization so that each participant could randomly be assigned to conditions. I am trying not to be overly wordy, so I hope I'm making myself clear. Does anyone know of a work-around for this? In its own literature Survey Monkey states that it doesn't permit this kind of random assignment, but there has GOT to be a way.right? Thanks in advance, Carol Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa 52803 phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13150.302fb879d23a9f8b8b43c453fd3bfed3&n=T&l=tips&o=2042 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-2042-13150.302fb879d23a9f8b8b43c453fd3bf...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2052 or send a blank email to leave-2052-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
