Need your help! Short political survey
 

Hello Everyone!

I am a political science major at school in MN and if you wouldn't mind giving me a couple mins of your time I would really appreciate your input on a survey I created. I created this survey to help analyze underlying dimensions in peoples' attitudes toward gun control. I would be happy to post a followup regarding the survey responses for those interested. Thanks a lot for your help on this one!!!!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?s...iLnZHYFg_3d_3d

Have a great evening!

Scott

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I am not in favor of gun control.

#13 on page 1 is a bad question. I can't answer it if I don't believe in gun control. I had to pick the first option.

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btw, any yes/no question that includes the phrase "or not" cannot be properly answered.

for example, "Do you believe in X, or not" is a nonsense yes/no question. If I say "yes" am I saying that I believe in X or that I do not believe in X. Both are valid interpretations of the answer for the question as asked.

poorly structured survey, IMO.

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Done....

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All done! :D

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Done - no problems understanding and answering the questions. Hope you make an A+:tu

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Agreed on #13.
#2 on page 2 needs more options. Maybe monthly? Or change weekly to regularly. And it could fall under the 15-19 issue below. Another thing on this one is I question if "church" is generic enough. Maybe how often do you attend a place of worship. And it should be "how often" not how many times a year unless you change your answers.
#3, 11 and 12 on p2 - maybe add a Neutral
#7 - 10 on p2 are more of a test question than a survey question. Turns me off personally
#15-19 on p2 are pretty typical for a survey, but often there is an option "prefer not to say" or something of that nature.

:2
Hope that helps.

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Good catch, especially on 17-19 on p1. It gives the surveyor the opportunity to pick which answer fits their agenda. That would turn many a people off for sure.

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I thought it was a good survey. Glad to help:)

aj

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Done ;):tu

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Done.

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Done...

But that whole church thing needs to be re-worded.

Not all of us attend churches.

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Done.:tu

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Is this just soliciting help to create the survey or are you using these results?

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Interesting survey. I was particularly happy to be able to help as I have a political science degree from the University of Minnesota.

I answered as best as I could but there were a number of questions I felt were to broad or without context that made it difficult to feel like I completely agreed with my answer but it was the best of the available options. Gun control is not a simple issue and it's hard to get at the core issues. I will very interested in your responses.

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Nice attempt. Does need a little work on wording and choices in some areas, but pretty good job overall.

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I think he was just asking for some help. I could be wrong though. :confused:

I didn't even submit my survey...just thought he/you were just looking for feedback on the survey questions themselves. Shrug.

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I am interested to hear the results once you have all the data compiled :)

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Just so you know, I clicked "other" for race. There is only one race, the human race.

All questionaires that deliniate differences in race help to foster the so-called racist issues we have. As long as we continue to think in those terms, there will be racism.

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:tpd:

Removing "or not" from several questions would make it more clear.:2

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Thank you so much to those of you who replied to the survey!!! This is truly going to be more fun and interesting with more data. I'm sorry to those of you who had a hard time understanding the "Do you agree with X, or not?" questions but this is my first survey. One of the things that the specifically teach us is that if you ask the question as "Do you agree that X?" the person taking the survey will be more likely to mark "agree" without much thought. However, if you ask "Do you agree or disagree with X?" then you are more likely to make the person taking the survey think about and mark their true opinion. I guess I could have worded the questions a little better but I think one can still understand the questions. Thanks again for those of you taking the time to fill out the survey! Also, thanks for sticking with me...this is my first attempt at administering a pilot survey.

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I see your point... my bad! I will have to throw that question out. Thanks for the heads up :-):ss

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This is a survey for class. It is more or less a pilot survey for a more in depth study in a higher class.

In my current class we are learning research methods. I will also be writing a paper about the results. I would be happy to post the final paper and final survey results here for y'all to look at and critique.

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Good luck with your paper Scott. I've had to do survey's for Stats, Public speaking, and Cultural Anthropology so I understand and am glad to help. For question #10 on the second page I chose 4 for the number of the branches of government. You're welcome to change that for your final results if you'd like. I chose 4 because of the unofficial 4th branch. That branch IMO is the media. Just wanted to let you know why. Cheers!

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:tpd:
There's no way to give answers to questions that make a statement, then add "or not"...if the survey is corrected I'll answer it too, or not...dunno how the rest of you managed...

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I thought it was to the point survey with no out of line or can't answer questions. Then again I was a Philosoph / Pol Sci major. I think there will be a lot of similar answers from members of this forum. There has to a be higher percentage of gun owners or gun ownership supportersn here.

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:tt

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Done!

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Amen, brother. :tu

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Took the survey, interesting choice of questions. If I understand the OP correctly that was a survey intended to ascertain people's attitudes towards gun control. So I ask, what does the governments ability to handle natural disasters have to do with gun control? I can see why you ask religious and political affiliation questions as they could be used to build a demographic picture of the responders. However, natural disasters, really? :2

With that being said, I hope the efforts of the CA community have helped and I wish you good luck in your endeavors.

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You guys DO realize this thread is over 4 months old, right?

This post yesterday revived it.

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Asking questions about how the government can handle a natural disaster is relevant. One, it depicts the responders confidence in government. If there was ever a time to bear arms, it’s after a natural disaster. Does one sit back and let the government protect their home and family from looters and anarchy, or do we bear arms and protect it ourselves…

It shows the perspective behind the answers. Just as he asked how many branches of the government and who the vice president is to put relevance to all the responders’ answers. If they answered who is vice president wrong, what does that say about depth of thought on the other answers?

Questions that do not seem relevant add legitimacy to whatever or however they answered.

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Think you can pick it apart if you want, but the general gist of the questions is easy to get...