How important is piloting a questionnaire before use?
It’s important to test your survey questionnaire before using it to collect data. Pretesting and piloting can help you identify questions that don’t make sense to participants, or problems with the questionnaire that might lead to biased answers.
What is a fair question?
Here is the meaning as used in “fair question”: “acceptable and appropriate in a particular situation”
How do you identify ambiguous sentences?
An ambiguous sentence has two or more possible meanings within a single sentence or sequence of words. This can confuse the reader and make the meaning of the sentence unclear.
What kind of questions should I avoid asking?
You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page. Your questions should be reasonably scoped.
When is it too much to ask a question?
Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much. If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to participate in a discussion about ______”, then you should not be asking here.
Are there any legal questions you can ask at an interview?
If you follow the legal procedure, you can learn several things without asking the candidate, such as: conviction records, bad credit etc. References or previous employers are also good sources to find out more about the candidate through legal means. Want more? Check our list with the best interview questions to ask.
Do you ask the right question at the right time?
You are likely interested in listening for specific information. This means that in order to communicate well, you need to ask the right question and ask it at the right time. The wrong question is almost guaranteed to generate the wrong answer.
