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Re: Email Surveys: Pros and Cons...Mefetic (mefetic@gate.net.com)30 Sep 1995 20:05:36 GMT
> > Hi, > > I am wondering if anyone has any comments about the pros and cons of > Email surveys... Personally, I think that they tend to draw ppl that > have vested interest in answering the survey itself... and parallel post > survey's for response rates... not to mention the validity of sample > size... then there is the problematic nature of the structure of questions > in a cross-cultural context... > > Luana > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luana Lisandro ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > University of Western Australia | "There is no system that has not > email: luana@tartarus.uwa.edu.au| another system concealed within it." > | "Art & Lies" by Jeanette Winterson !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any survey - with a desire to be a probability random survey - has to consider what is the type of person who is likely to answer. Email users as a sociological study is still in its infancy. One would first have to do this analysis first. Socioeconomic status would be narrow, I would think. Is Email a middle class practice?? What I'm saying is survey's are riddled with problems, email would do nothing to solve them, If anything it would complicate them. Just a thought. Robi
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