Thing 18--Survey time!

I finally got my survey done. I had fun with it, although I do see a great deal of serious uses for this. In my previous post about surveys as a means of data collection, I was concerned that we'd think we were experts and misread data. I can see how that would happen now, having designed a survey myself and frequently finding places where bias could appear. For example, when creating a rating scale, I was going by my sense of humor and personality in ranking possible answers. What I think is a higher-ranking response on a scale of 1-5 might not match someone else's ideas. That would be different for other people and in a real situation this could be very misleading.

That being said, for informal data collection I think it's great and Surveymonkey is really, really easy to use. Like I said before, I enjoyed Juanma's surveys and I think we could do something like that easily to keep us all on the same page.

Here you have it, my blog's very own Surveymonkey!


And, of course... Click Here to take the best survey ever! Quickly, before the pictures aren't there anymore or something (I didn't bother to host them myself, and it's no fun without the pictures, trust me.)

Oh, and read more about the creature in the first picture here. Creepy stuff.