surveys

/ what is a survey?

what is a survey

/dd quantititave information is systematically collected from a relatively large sample taken from a population.

sampling

advantages allow for investigations in realistic settigs

cost relatively low large amount of data from large amount of respondents

disadvanteges

no control of independent varibes possible (contrary to experiments)

wording and order of questions have a bias

quantitative: using standardized measures (questions) ensuring that data is compararable across respondents

/why