Talk:Questionnaire/Archives/2012

Questionnaire
A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for the purpose of gathering information from respondents. Although they are often designed for statistical analysis of the responses, this is not always the case. The questionnaire was invented by Sir Francis Galton.[citation needed] Questionnaires have advantages over some other types of surveys in that they are cheap, do not require as much effort from the questioner as verbal or telephone surveys, and often have standardized answers that make it simple to compile data. However, such standardized answers may frustrate users. Questionnaires are also sharply limited by the fact that respondents must be able to read the questions and respond to them. Thus, for some demographic groups conducting a survey by questionnaire may not be practical. As a type of survey, questionnaires also have many of the same problems relating to question construction and wording that exist in other types of opinion polls.

Advertising
I have deleted the link to My3q.com, which seemed more promotion than anything else. If anyone disagrees, you of course have the option to revert my edit. Jonomacdrones 02:20, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * after reserching the aforementioned page, it should not be listed here- it was nothing but advertising and it's registrant info shows it should not be trusted as a verifiable source Jonomacdrones 02:25, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Question Type
I would like to extend the section on question type and include some examples and alternative classifications. For example on open ended questions it would be helpful to include links to Thematic Apperception Test and for closed questions links to semantic differntial and Likert scale etc. Declutter (talk) 22:44, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I just made a long table with all question type on the French wiki. See :fr:Questionnaire#Types_de_question. I included English names :D Should be a very helpful start for anyone who want to move on this section. Yug (talk)  14:00, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Seems done: Questionnaire_construction Yug (talk)  13:11, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Merger Proposal
The content on questionnaire construction has similar headings and content to this page. Plus, this page also includes stubs of content from the questionnaire construction section. Could they be merged? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.53.226.17 (talk) 02:38, 13 September 2012 (UTC)