Bad Survey Question @BadSurveyQ
On the hunt for the best examples of bad (or just downright odd!) survey questions! #badsurveyquestion London, England Joined November 2017-
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“Here's 2 things. Tell us if you prefer the one on the left by clicking on the right or the one on the right by clicking on the left.” — @BadSurveyQ from eBay.
@BrentWRoberts So that later in my survey where I use a different measure that has 1 = low and 5 = high my survey will look even better by contrast, then, just to crush participants spirits, we ask them to enter their phone number for a follow-on survey using a slider input:
Who the fuck are the 25% of people who think having a work meeting with the opposite sex is inappropriate
Who the fuck are the 25% of people who think having a work meeting with the opposite sex is inappropriate
@MattChorley @YouGov @TimesRadio "Don't know" is not a midpoint! @BadSurveyQ
I think the text fills have gone awry… unless 2024 has suddenly passed me by!
textbook @BadSurveyQ
@rnishimura @BadSurveyQ I was shocked by the outbursts of antisemitism after Oct 7th, but this type of question is worse than useless in trying to figure things out: x.com/saletan/status…
@rnishimura @BadSurveyQ I was shocked by the outbursts of antisemitism after Oct 7th, but this type of question is worse than useless in trying to figure things out: x.com/saletan/status…
Not just @BadSurveyQ, but bad survey design as a whole, and bad use of polling
Have fun #goodsurveyquestion people 😉
@MargieOmero @BadSurveyQ I can't decide which one of these is my favourite.
@BadSurveyQ niche...
Today on bad survey questions from the @MTA no less — why pick between a 10-pt numeric scale or a 4-pt ordinal scale when you can just smash them together? Come on man
POV: You just took a very poorly designed survey cc:@BadSurveyQ
Has the "above" in the set phrase "none of the above" completely lost its meaning? @BadSurveyQ
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Calling @BadSurveyQ!
@BrentWRoberts So that later in my survey where I use a different measure that has 1 = low and 5 = high my survey will look even better by contrast, then, just to crush participants spirits, we ask them to enter their phone number for a follow-on survey using a slider input:
@tiddlydump @camjpatrick @StatsLime I think it's more of a questionnaire design problem, tbh. Putting on the question "alone with a man/woman who is not your spouse" could hint to the respondent they are supposed to think those are inappropriate behaviors. But I'll let @BadSurveyQ decide.
Putting slides together for an undergrad lecture on polling/research and my best resource so far has been @BadSurveyQ: "Why is this such a dumb Q? Why does this bias response options" And then obvs. putting a lot of these screencaps in there to show "what not to do"
@mascakir @BadSurveyQ Besides that, it runs from bottom to top 😉
@adampayne26 . @SRDorman One for #RDPIR @BadSurveyQ
@PeterLugtig @BadSurveyQ Meh, they could have done better, something like: YES (bolded with a big blinking arrow pointing at it) no (much smaller letter sized, almost invisible)
@rnishimura @BadSurveyQ I love the design of the answer options. Very creative.
Woah, the power of asking a bad survey item... ropercenter.cornell.edu/sites/default/…
@MargieOmero @BadSurveyQ I can't decide which one of these is my favourite.