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We are calling them The Seven Deadly Sins Of Questionnaire Design. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Seven Deadly Sins emerged from an ecclesiastic era, and since then have evolved as broader ethic markers for those who prefer disinfected consciences. Gwyneth Paltrow lost her head over them in the movie <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seven,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the secular world has incorporated them as business credos (an example being <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2012\/08\/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-manag\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Seven Deadly Sins of Management<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, from the Harvard Business Review).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"square-cta secondary-lined-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/a\/showEntry.do?mode=audience&amp;sourceRef=audience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Select your respondents<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As long as people are dropping the ball in their professions, the Seven Deadly Sins work as a values template. They certainly work in market research, specifically when it comes to online survey questionnaire design. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>[bctt tweet=&#8221;Without a heavenly questionnaire, a survey will plunge into the deepest recesses of hell.&#8221; username=&#8221;QuestionPro&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Below are the Seven<\/em> <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deadly Sins of Questionnaire Design that every researcher should avoid.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>LUST<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are passionate about your project. You let that lust pollute your wording, even allow bias to possess the questions like a Linda Blair dream. Sometimes you don\u2019t even know you\u2019re doing it! As one research expert put it: \u201cBias is the mortal enemy of all surveys, and as a survey creator, it\u2019s important to guard against it to make sure you get reliable results.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To avoid this Hades, keep your language neutral and dry; employ a sensible number of opt-outs and open-ended questions; and make sure you use a second and even third set of eyes while crafting questions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>GLUTTONY<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You crave that data or have a reprehensible voracity for it. You write an extremely long questionnaire, which ultimately results in crappy data collection. \u00a0You ignore the fact that respondents don\u2019t care much for long, boring surveys, or your greediness for the data causes tunnel vision in your data collection methodology. It&#8217;s all part of your questionnaire design.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As some of our own research has shown, respondent fatigue sets in after 20 minutes of a survey. This may result in respondents exerting less effort and spending less time thinking about their answers as they journey deeper into the survey. A survey over 35 minutes is an indicator that your craving for data is approaching its peak with little consideration for the survey participant. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some had predicted that online surveys completed from mobile devices would\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbookblog.org\/2015\/12\/18\/ray-poynters-predictions-for-2016\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">approach 50%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In an era where mobile devices are displacing computers, long survey questionnaires are just a sin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>SLOTH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Put it simply, edit, edit, edit! Mistakes won\u2019t make you look slothful to respondents, just demonic. Furthermore, on the side effects of sloth, a good <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verstaresearch.com\/blog\/better-data-through-better-survey-design\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">research practitioner explained<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the problem is rarely \u201cbad respondents\u201d \u2013 instead the problem is lazy researchers.\u00a0 When people discover that the survey they just agreed to take is boring, tedious, repetitive, or too long, they either quit altogether or they stop providing good answers. As I\u2019ve stated many times in the past, when it comes to data quality, the burden should always be on the researcher first. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>WRATH<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You want to defend your research project or the sanctity of your data. Full of wrath, you will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those unsuitable respondents who access your holy survey. Okay, maybe not Ezekiel 25:17, but you\u2019re going to place a lot of screeners and trap questions to weed out the unfaithful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent studies indicate the methodology of trap questions for surveys may not be as effective as originally thought. In reality, trap questions might have unexpected results\u2014such as shifting the thinking of respondents to critical thinking from \u201coptimal thinking\u201d (that is the state of mind they reason as they normally would in daily life, which is typically necessary for reliable data).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are other analytical ways to evaluate respondent data that don\u2019t include placing land mines in your questionnaire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>GREED<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Budgets are rarely fun, unless you\u2019re working on the next Marvel film or you\u2019re a Congressman(not from the state of Illinois). At the same time, a sense of greed within you assumes that the internet ought to make research economical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, you skimp on incentives. Bad move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reports<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> claim that 175,000 online surveys are conducted a day. This volume has influenced a drop in participation rates to historic lows, which some estimates to be at 2%. On the other hand, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplepulse.com\/resources\/useful-articles\/survey-response-rates\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">studies have shown<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0that the proper incentive will have a positive effect on survey response rate. We touched base on this topic on a previous blog. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This form of avarice can be avoided by rewarding your respondents properly for their time, and never assume they care about your brand as much as you do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>ENVY<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, you\u2019ve done all this work and soon respondents will joyfully complete surveys, while vying for an iPad, that trip to Hawaii or Starbucks gift card. You say to yourself: \u201cthis is a lot for a 40min IDI or telephone interview and it\u2019s all from my blood, sweat and tears\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This attitude of envy will harm your research project. You\u2019re not just envious, you lack empathy\u2014the key ingredient for a successful online survey questionnaire. As <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stated<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a previous blog, empathy is significant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCompanies need to have more empathy for the research participant. The person(s) who writes the survey instrument should ask themselves if they could sit through that survey for 25-30 minutes. Companies should make surveys fun and engaging, regardless of the topic. They should test their surveys over and over again to identify the fatigue points in the survey. This is usually the area where data integrity is compromised.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This quote addresses all the other deadly sins, mind you, because they all overlap. It certainly overlaps with:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>PRIDE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pride is also known as vainglory. It basically means you think you know better than everyone, including study participants. Pride has become a positive quality in western culture, but don\u2019t let it fool you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pride also tends to stifle the ability to be open-minded. With all the tech innovations changing market research this year, such as eye tracking technology, social listening etc., don\u2019t let your pride assume your ways are absolute and unchangeable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"square-cta secondary-lined-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/a\/showEntry.do?mode=audience&amp;sourceRef=audience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Select your respondents<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The opposite of the Seven Deadly Sins are the Seven Heavenly Virtues. We\u2019ll discuss them pertaining to online surveys in the future. Right now, though, avoiding the above list will likely create a paradise for your next online survey undertaking. Hell might not freeze over, but neither will your data.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, we published a series of best practice for questionnaire development. 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