The Survey Geek

Category: Miscellaneous

  • Disclaimers

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    Our knowledge manager sent me this article on Twitter the other day.  She 's always pushing Twitter at me because she knows I don't get it and views that as some sort of character flaw.  This article tries to answer the question on everyone's lips: why don't more teens use Twitter?  The search for the…

  • To tell you the truth . . .

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    Those of us who are old enough to remember the early days of online may also recall that one troubling finding was the disparity between customer sat ratings across modes, that is, online vs. phone. Online always seemed to be lower. There were multiple hypotheses advanced but once the empirical work got going it seemed…

  • Giving shape to the formless

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    A couple of months back Katie Harris down in Australia posted a comment referring to an entry in her blog–Zebra Bites.  It's a blog worth reading and I've added it to the list on the right.  The content is interesting and it's a much better looking blog than the one you're reading right now. (I…

  • Waiting for mobile

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    There is a nice little piece in the June issue of Research that tries to put interviewing on mobile phones in perspective. I’m not talking about something as old fashioned as calling people, but rather administering surveys on these little buggers by SMS, by Web browser, or by a special app you download that then…

  • Some changes to The Survey Geek

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    I've made a few changes over the last few months that I want to bring to your attention: A while back I added a list of related sites where readers might find other stuff of interest.  There is a mouse over function that displays a short explanation of why the site might be useful. I…

  • The Online Evolution 2008 Continued

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    OK, back online with The Online Evolution 2008. 1:30PM – This is to be an interactive session led by Nick Buckley who is directing the social media initiative at GfK in the UK. The general topic is supposed to be about understanding Online Evolution with a bunch of subtopics. My table has been assigned the…

  • A Puzzle

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    The latest issue of POQ has a meta-analysis by Bob Groves and Emilia Peytcheva that looks at the impact of nonresponse rates on nonresponse bias.  It's primary finding is now familiar: we can expect significant nonresponse bias "when the causes of participation are highly correlated with the survey variables."  In other words, if we do…

  • Errata

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    Way back on March 12 I posted Some Days are Better than Others and erroneously attributed the research to IPSOS when I should have cited Michael Gazala from Lightspeed Research.  The post has now been corrected and I’ve added a link to the presentation. Sorry. 

  • Cool Tool for Setting Up Meetings

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    Systems like Lotus Notes and Outlook have freed us from much of the drudgery of organizing meetings, but only as long as everyone you want to meet with is part of the same organization.  Having to coordinate meeting dates and times with  people outside the organization is a vivid reminder of the bad old days…

  • Off Topic: Airline Travel Tips

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    This blog has been silent as of late because the Survey Geek has been spending way too much time on airplanes.  Some of it has been flying, but most of it seems to have been on the ground waiting.  It has been a tough summer for air travel and colleagues have been asking for tips,…