Battlegrounds Survey

Gladiolus · 05-06-2010, 07:26 AM

Having an inherent distrust in surveys that ask questions just to get you to answer in a way that can be interpreted as you saying what someone wants you to say, I had a look at this one.

Other than asking your station name, there are only four questions, two of which are "What is your play style?" and "How many hours per week do you play?". Depending on your interpretation of terms like "casual" and "hardcore", it could be construed that it's the same question being asked in two ways.

The questions don't say whether they refer to playing of EQ2 in general or the battlegrounds in particular. If respondents assume that it means one while the survey interpreter works on the basis that it means another, that is one way in which people end up being told "That's what you said" when they meant nothing of the kind.

05-06-2010, 07:26 AM	#1
Gladiolus Loremaster Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 873	Having an inherent distrust in surveys that ask questions just to get you to answer in a way that can be interpreted as you saying what someone wants you to say, I had a look at this one. Other than asking your station name, there are only four questions, two of which are "What is your play style?" and "How many hours per week do you play?". Depending on your interpretation of terms like "casual" and "hardcore", it could be construed that it's the same question being asked in two ways. The questions don't say whether they refer to playing of EQ2 in general or the battlegrounds in particular. If respondents assume that it means one while the survey interpreter works on the basis that it means another, that is one way in which people end up being told "That's what you said" when they meant nothing of the kind.