Essay about Conducting Surveys

Francis Crick: Similar with Watson, Crick is also eager to finish the study as soon as possible. He is also one of the awardees of the Noble Prize.

One factor that makes it difficult to determine the extent of drug use is the people who are addicted to prescription drugs will not admit that they have a problem. These people may not be counted as drug users in a survey.

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According to Schutt (2008), sampling is defined as a subset of population used in a study to be a representation of the population as a whole. My final project is a pre-hire assessment which analyzes potential risky pattern behaviors and emotions in the work place. One of the most important considerations related to sampling that will need to be addressed in my final project is defining the population that will be taking the assessment.

Starting with the introduction of the survey they seemed to be too specific in their intro of what was going to be in the survey by describing each type of question that would be presented throughout the survey. I feel like this information isn’t necessary and over excessive in an introduction. That part of the introduction should be taken out and instead maybe include something along the lines of “Please read every question carefully and thank you for participating” or something along those lines.

In terms of choosing my sampling method, I chose quota sampling. This is because we chose to survey 30 people in total but divide the group into genders; males and females. Therefore; 15 males and 15 females were surveyed. This was an important sampling method to choose because it was quite accurate. It was less biased as we decided to interview both genders, leading to varied results for our market research team. We also chose to have quota sampling, because it was the most efficient sampling method which gave us the most accurate information we set out to find. I feel it was important to have more than one division; that being males and females. This is purely because males and females have much diverse views and opinions and also priorities such as; males being more interested in booking rooms and assessing the online services, where the females would also enjoy the online services, but would show more interest in the facilities available, therefore it was quite key to find out how each gender progressed through the surveys. I feel that quota sampling is much more accurate than other sampling methods such as random sampling. This is because random sampling will leave the researchers with a range of results, which will be harder to compare or formulate decisions

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The findings of the survey responses can relate back to the literature review on how my data has shown that male drivers tend to get stopped more frequently that female drivers, just like other research that has been done. Police just consider males to be more suspicious than females from what many studies have shown. As well has non-whites and younger drivers are more likely to be stopped by police. Back to literature reviewed, many research that has been done have shown Blacks or any other non-white race would most likely be targeted by police. With age, police officers tend to suspect young drivers of crimes such as underage drinking, or drug related crimes. With the data collected of such a small, yet decent amount of respondents, sample has shown what much other research has shown about the relationship between gender, age, and race that do play a significant role in who the police decide to stop.

An anonymous 15 question survey was issued to the year 12 students of MacGregor State High School. The survey was based on the amount of teens being supervised whilst drinking, how they get access to drinks, and the prevalence of potential binge drinkers within this group of students surveyed. The primary data collected was then examined and compared with the secondary data results, Australian Trends.

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You are a psychologist working for a consulting firm that specializes in survey development. Your firm has been contacted by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (M.A.D.D.) to develop a survey that will identify teenagers who are at-risk for driving while intoxicated. M.A.D.D. has provided a list of questions that its research suggests will help to identify risk factors contributing to this behavior. M.A.D.D. needs your firm to work with its members to establish reliability and validity of this survey so that they can begin using it to establish risk in young adults across the nation.

There was a total of 236 participants in this survey, 173 of them being female (as shown in Table 1). The survey was distributed through various social media outlets, including: Facebook, Group Me, Twitter, email, and other online sites. The survey was intended for University of Pittsburgh undergraduate students, but due to being posted on social media, there is a possibility our survey was taken by students at other universities. We originally had 313 participants, but 77 were excluded due to their failure to complete the quality check question, or because they did not fully complete the survey by not giving us their year in school information. Materials and Procedure

We received 639 open-ended survey responses from inte- grators where they talked about factors that influence their acceptance decisions. From manually coding these open-ended responses, six themes came up: technical skills (47%), the relevance of requested feature (12%), communication skills (23%), behaviour (11%), trust (4%), and pro-activeness (2%). We went deeper into non-technical aspects to uncover the expectations of integrators that may possibly explain the perceived differences in pull request acceptance decision. One key observation from these responses was the ability to com- municate. Integrators mentioned that they form an impression about the pull request based on the description of the pull request. Integrator [R496] mentioned that “bad or misleading title influence her chances of accepting the pull request”.