Should I Buy a List of Respondents for my Survey?
My face tells you my answer in this one.
Research jargon is intimidating and doesn’t help your audience understand.
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.
Sarah and I talk about respondent sources and representative samples.
Buying publicly available research reports can seem like an expedient way to get the information you’re looking for. But there are some things to be aware of.
Little mistakes can have a big impact. Make sure you’re properly testing your surveys before fielding them. I have some suggestions about things to check you might not be considering.
It’s not really about the number of questions — it’s about your needs (and your audience).