Assignment: Making a Survey

In this assignment, you'll be making a survey, although youwill not actually need to get people to fill it out.

Choose a topic on anything you like. Cars, clothes, pets, homework, ice cream, video games... it doesn't matter. Keep it fairly broad though so you can ask lots of different questions.

Choose something that interests you!

All of your answers should be related to the topic you chose for your survey.

My Topic:

1. Give an example of data that you could collect that clearly meets each of the following.

You may use the same answer more than once.

a) Qualitative

b) Quantitative

c) Discrete

d) Continuous

e) Nominal

f) Ordinal

g) Interval

2. Define a reasonable population for your study.

3. Describe (in some detail) how you might choose a sample to minimize bias.

4. Give an example of each of the following question types that you might ask.

a) Open Ended

b) Information

c) Checklist

d) Ranking

e) Rating

5. a) Which of the questions in #4 would be best collected as primary data? Why?

b) Are any of the questions in #4 things that you might collect as secondary data?

Where might you go to find this data?

6. You'll do your best to minimize bias, but there is likely at least a little bias.

Explain (in some detail) one way that your study might be biased.