Don’t Try to Be Pew Research
Thought leadership research serves you and your audience. It doesn’t need to serve everyone.
Even if you’re not very familiar with research, you’ve heard the terms “quantitative” and “qualitative”. What’s the real difference? These terms refer to types of data — not necessarily to research approaches. Quantitative results are those you can count, that you can tabulate. These are either numbers you can work with mathematically or text…
As exciting as it may be, you shouldn’t just dive right into analyzing your survey responses without doing some data cleaning first. The most common cleaning functions are available within many online survey platforms, and can keep you from including poor quality responses in your analysis.
There are a lot of things you can do to make sure that your research respondents have a great experience and you’re not throwing roadblocks in their way.
In some situations, balancing your survey data may be appropriate to ensure you’ve got a representative sample.