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How Can a Question Randomizer Help You With Long Survey Drop-Offs?

Question randomizers are a tool used to vary where a question shows up in the survey. The primary purpose of these randomizers is to avoid question bias (where one question affects the results of another question), test survey responses, and prevent survey habituation. But while these are the most common uses, they’re not the only ones, and one of the ways you can use question randomization is to control the effects of survey dropout rate. Read more…

Is There a Downside to a High Response Rate?

As you develop your survey, choose your incentive, and write up your invitation emails, you need to make sure that you’re doing everything you can to boost your response rate. Response rate is an underrated part of survey analysis. When your response rate is low, you increase the likelihood that those that don’t fill out the survey have something in common, thereby reducing the value of your sample. Read more…

Benefits of Eye Tracking as a Market Research Technique

It’s easy to see why eye tracking is a popular form of data collection. There are weaknesses that make it less valuable when used independently of other research techniques, but as a complementary piece it can be very interesting. Read more…

Benefits and Weaknesses of Mouse Tracking for Website Design Usability Testing Part 2

If your only goal is to understand mouse movements, mouse tracking has few weaknesses. But that’s not the primary goal of mouse tracking. Mouse tracking is usually meant to be a form of customer satisfaction research or market research – viewing how people interact with your site with their mouse and learning what you can change to improve clicks, hits, optimization, branding, and more. Read more…

Benefits and Weaknesses of Mouse Tracking for Website Design Usability Testing Part 1

Website usability is becoming a more and more important part of customer satisfaction. Regardless of whether or not your business is primarily online, your customers (and potential customers) likely interact with your website often, and that makes it important for you to develop a website that not only suits their needs, but also sells them on your products and services. Read more…

Are You Using Survey Logic Correctly?

At Survey Methods, we routinely look at the surveys that we receive in our in boxes and see if they can’t be completed better. One of the most common problems we’ve found with a lot of these surveys has to do with the way the survey utilizes survey logic. Read more…

How to Use Survey Results to Market Your Company

As a company, you ethically shouldn’t try to make more of these results than they appear, and realistically it would be foolish of your company to make business decisions based on this type of data, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ample opportunities for you to research for data that suits your marketing needs. Just make sure you use that data ethically. Read more…

Over-Targeting – The Problem With Relying Too Heavily on Your Discoveries

While it’s very important and beneficial to find out your market is and how best to target them, there is always a downside – the more you target a specific market, the more you miss out on other potential revenue. This type of problem occurs with more than just market research. It happens with website optimization as well. Read more…

Are You Choosing the Right Online Panel Company?

Panel companies are not often kept to as high standards as they should be, and many take advantage of this lack of oversight to earn more money. Overall, you have to be very careful about the panel companies you choose, and don’t be afraid to test them out yourself or read thorough reviews before you select one. Read more…

Relationship Study Issues Example 2 – Introducing a Problematic Variable Part 2

You cannot simply introduce variables like this into research and then claim to draw any conclusions. Your research needs to be free of extraneous variables, because introducing anything into your research can alter the results so drastically that they become completely meaningless, no matter how much you would like to believe they have meaning. Read more…