(May 25, 2013 at 5:05 pm)Sandu Cortez Wrote:(May 25, 2013 at 4:35 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: You need to give us greater background on what this research is about, it's aims and it's goals.
Protip from a PhD researcher who specialises in primary ethnographical research methodologies; you need to ensure your methodology, and your questions in your questionnaire are watertight.
For example, in all but very rare cases (closet atheists), people who identify as atheist are unlikely to visit a church. Also, nobody but Christians attend a church. Hindus go to temple, Sikhs to a gurdwara, Muslims to mosque and so on. This effectively makes many of the paths of the questionnaire redundant.
Also, this is a multi-nation forum. Not everyone is from the US, which highlights again the need for greater clarity on the aims.
Question 4 also has an answer of 0 to answer your example you made.
This survey is made the way it is for a reason, but to reveal that reason will have too much of an influence on whomever fills it out; it will defeat the purpose of the survey.
Further clarification in the aims of this survey is detrimental in this case and I appreciate all whom fill it out. Thank you.
How could clarifying the aims of the survey be detrimental to the survey, unless there is an ulterior motive? You don't have to reveal the conclusions of the research beforeits been conducted, but you do have to ensure that respondents know what they're contributing to, otherwise you've got serious ethical flaws that won't pass any ethical review board worth their pay packet.
The only real leading question not designed to elicit backgrounds of the respondents is the final one on the food packaging outreach event, thus I'd have to say that's what the entire thing is about.
Sorry, I won't be answering becuase I have no idea what the research is aiming to achieve. Good luck with your research.