CED0540 week 3 - Survey Monkey

As I continue through my journey through the world of statistics, we have to design, implement, and analyze a survey.  My group chose to create a survey about pets using Survey Monkey.  When designing a survey the questions are important.  The designer needs to think about the types of questions (the reason for the survey and support it), how many questions to have, and the wording.  A good survey topic can go array without these important elements.  You also need to make sure the questions have a good flow about them.  If they don’t make sense, the person providing feedback most likely won’t complete the survey.  In order to get good data the questions have to be worded well, as well as having “just the right amount of questions.”  After all these elements are in place, you need to choose your tool.  We choose Survey Monkey; it’s a free, easy, online survey tool.  Our next step will be to analyze the results.

CED0540 week 2

What is it about statistics that I just can't wrap my head around?  This course reminds me a lot of my special education courses in regards to calculating and interpreting standard deviations.  I like math and do well in it, but for some reason stats and I don't see eye to eye.  I'm really glad that the majority of our assignments this week were group work so that I have others to work through the problems with.  If I could just get my head around stats, especially the terms, I think I'd really like them (or at least I want to believe.)  The irony is that we use the stats all the time.  This week we spent more time on the central tendencies and how to calculate them, terminology, and surveys.  For my two terms I looked up market research and paid surveys.  There wasn't too much new to me for paid surveys, but I found market research interesting.  I always thought it had more to do with the product itself and marketing it, but it really has more to do with marketing the project.  Hey now I'm talking in circles - maybe I'm starting to understand stats.  :)  After I read up on marketing research, I thought no wonder people like marketing - it sounds interesting.