[Theforum] Re: questionnaire (was: Rambling)

Luther, Ron Ron.Luther at compaq.com
Wed Oct 31 15:14:09 CST 2001


Hi Matt,


That's one of the "artsy" areas in survey design and analysis ...
working with 'open-ended questions'.

Basically you read through all of them 40 or 50 times and then keep
dividing them into piles/categories until the categorization becomes
fairly stable.

Then you write up a 'sound bite' to capture the 'flavor' of the
category.  Tedious stuff, actually.

Hmmmmm ... However - you could always do some 'Chernoff Faces' or
'Spiders' on the multi-dimensional stuff!  {Techniques for graphic
representation of multidimensional data.

RonL.



-----Original Message-----
From: Warden, Matt [mailto:mwarden at mattwarden.com]


bob wrote:
>Additionally, it would have to play well across cultures (nodding to 
>the realities of an international list) and encourage open, 
>thoughtful remarks.

Which reminds me (this stuff comes back in parts...), we talked a lot
about making at least PART (if not all) of the survey textarea responses
to questions like "what do you think about the quality of discussions on
thelist?" or something of that sort.

Whether or not that would be useful would depend on how much response we
expect, i guess, but there seemed to be a lot of talk about this when we
discussed this on admin a while back.

But, if we did that, i'd have less chance to show off my math/statistics
skillz. So there's obviously a trade off...

er...

--
mattwarden
mattwarden.com


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