So, basically every survey has to deal with bothersome subjects, especially if it’s a survey of teens or children (for different reasons).
I remember a survey given by some friends of mine for a school project; they had taught a lesson to a classroom of children and wanted to measure how much stuck. The survey answers were all on a 1-5 scale, where 1 was “I disagree strongly” and 5 was “I agree strongly.”
One of the questions, put on there as a test to ensure the children understood the format, was “I eat breakfast with Martin Luther King Jr every morning.” (The lesson mentioned him, among others.) They were expecting 1s, but the average answer was 2.
One of the questions, put on there as a test to ensure the children understood the format, was “I eat breakfast with Martin Luther King Jr every morning.” (The lesson mentioned him, among others.) They were expecting 1s, but the average answer was 2.
Perhaps the “strongly” in the “disagree strongly” gloss is being understood to require an emotional reaction? It’s not a phrase I’d normally use to describe an understanding that something I don’t particularly care about is factually wrong.
I may be misremembering it- 1 might have been “false,” 2 “mostly false,” 3 “neither true nor false,” 4 “mostly true,” and 5 “true.” I do remember that at the time I thought it was a disastrous showing that mostly invalidated the results of their study (or should have had a far more prominent role in their data analysis).
One of the questions, put on there as a test to ensure the children understood the format, was “I eat breakfast with Martin Luther King Jr every morning.”
Some of the children probably considered a possibility of an acausal breakfast with Martin Luther King Jr. You don’t have to be in the same room or in the same moment to have an acausal breakfast with someone.
The sanity waterline is already raising, and some teachers are scared… :D
So, basically every survey has to deal with bothersome subjects, especially if it’s a survey of teens or children (for different reasons).
I remember a survey given by some friends of mine for a school project; they had taught a lesson to a classroom of children and wanted to measure how much stuck. The survey answers were all on a 1-5 scale, where 1 was “I disagree strongly” and 5 was “I agree strongly.”
One of the questions, put on there as a test to ensure the children understood the format, was “I eat breakfast with Martin Luther King Jr every morning.” (The lesson mentioned him, among others.) They were expecting 1s, but the average answer was 2.
Perhaps the “strongly” in the “disagree strongly” gloss is being understood to require an emotional reaction? It’s not a phrase I’d normally use to describe an understanding that something I don’t particularly care about is factually wrong.
I may be misremembering it- 1 might have been “false,” 2 “mostly false,” 3 “neither true nor false,” 4 “mostly true,” and 5 “true.” I do remember that at the time I thought it was a disastrous showing that mostly invalidated the results of their study (or should have had a far more prominent role in their data analysis).
Some of the children probably considered a possibility of an acausal breakfast with Martin Luther King Jr. You don’t have to be in the same room or in the same moment to have an acausal breakfast with someone.
The sanity waterline is already raising, and some teachers are scared… :D