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GeneralAdvice to Vendors and their Followup Surveys Pin
W Balboos, GHB21-Jan-15 8:25
W Balboos, GHB21-Jan-15 8:25 
Every now and then I receive a survey from a vendor/institution/etc. asking me if I would please fill out a survey for them. On occasion, I'm in a benevolent mood and follow their link.

My advice to the people who pay for the survey (and by proxy, to those who create them):

If you ask a question, allow for the user to not answer - either explicitly, such as a radio button with "no answer" or "not applicable" or allow blanks or whatever it takes to let the user continue and not disclose whatever it is they don't want to disclose.

    Two reasons why this is useful:
  1. For you, it reduces the number of junk-answers where a selection or ranking is given that has no relevance to the user's experience with the product.   If you actually intended to do a good job then you don't want surreptitious answers.
  2. People just close the window and the survey's left incomplete (if any data were saved) or
    undone (a commission lost?).


There's alsothe possibility the survey's true purpose is to find out what fraction of users that start actually finish, and where the decide their disgusted enough to quit.




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