PSYB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Everyman, Drug Rehabilitation, Nato
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You"re not trying to collect information representative of an entire population, you"re just trying to get information for the group of participants in the study. Operationalize variables as questions: this is the only way to measure variables in questionnaires, to measure variables must ask questions. In what ways can you ask questions that will you give meaningful answers. Ask them to critique it, ask them to make notes on questions that are inapplicable, offensive, don"t make sense, etc. So that you can indicate to people how long it"ll take them to fill it out and how much time they have to commitment. People will often quit the survey if it takes longer than the time you indicated. Shorten list: reduce it to the questions you actually need and keep it as short as you can. In your pre-test participants can you tell which questions they think are redundant. Refine questions: based on pre-test critiques.
