{"id":564174,"date":"2009-05-06T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/questionpro.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/06\/when_your_survey_data_lies_to\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T14:55:00","slug":"when_your_survey_data_lies_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/when_your_survey_data_lies_to\/","title":{"rendered":"When your survey data lies to you."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image\"As Mark Twain famously said – Lies, damn lies and statistics<\/a> – it is really important to understand the statistics and the modeling behind survey data to make empirical sense of it.
\nMy brother is doing his EMBA at HaaS – Berkley and he recently became the class president. Like all good people in leadership positions, he wanted to do a survey<\/a> to gather the opinions of his constituents – the students! – Of course he called me (and no – I did not charge him) – gave him a free license to QuestionPro. The only unfortunate part was that I ended up being his customer support rep – How do you tell family to “Stop wasting my time?”
\nAnyways – I guided him on the questions types (matrix vs. checkbox – cognitive stress etc.) but then as usual something came to my attention when we were looking at the data. One of the questions they had was:<\/p>\n

I’m most interested in EWMBA experiences centered around (Please select top 3 choices)<\/b><\/div>\n