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    The document discusses creating survey questions and the difficulties in coming up with questions for different scales. It also discusses the differences and advantages of interviews over questionnaires for social scientists, including interviews allowing for more open-ended and in-depth responses while questionnaires can introduce biases.

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    The document discusses creating survey questions and the difficulties in coming up with questions for different scales. It also discusses the differences and advantages of interviews over questionnaires for social scientists, including interviews allowing for more open-ended and in-depth responses while questionnaires can introduce biases.

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    The document discusses creating survey questions and the difficulties in coming up with questions for different scales. It also discusses the differences and advantages of interviews over questionnaires for social scientists, including interviews allowing for more open-ended and in-depth responses while questionnaires can introduce biases.

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    The document discusses creating survey questions and the difficulties in coming up with questions for different scales. It also discusses the differences and advantages of interviews over questionnaires for social scientists, including interviews allowing for more open-ended and in-depth responses while questionnaires can introduce biases.

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    Part A

    Choosing the topic for the survey was easy. There are a variety of topics and ideas to create a
    survey from and social media was one of them. Coming up with questions was not too difficult.
    The first difficulty I had was trying to come up with a question for the linear scale. It was hard to
    come up with a question for the linear scale because the other questions I had in mind were not
    appropriate for the scale and were more appropriate for checkboxes or multiple choice instead.
    The second difficulty was how I was unsure if my questions were biased. I repeatedly kept
    changing the wording and rereading them. Depending on my audience, I would have to adapt
    my questions and topic to their interests so that there will be a common ground. By doing this, I
    will be successful in making the audience engaged and won’t lose interest. It is important to
    know my sample population before I create a survey so that the questions would be relevant to
    who I am surveying. For example, if I created a survey on drugs, I wouldn’t give this survey to
    little kids because they aren’t the appropriate people to ask. Also, this would be considered
    sampling bias especially if I were to use the results to represent the global population. If I found
    out that my sampling population were teens, then a survey on social media would be one of the
    many topics that I could survey them on because they can relate to the topic.

    Part B

    1. ​This is true because questionnaires can limit the responses. Questionnaires can also be
    close ended questions and this won’t be very useful for social scientists. Also, at most times
    they won’t be able to know who they are asking personally whereas in an interview, they are
    face to face with the person. On the other hand, interview questions will be more open ended.
    Also, in an interview, the social scientist is able to observe and report on the person’s opinions
    and even their behaviour while answering a question. The social scientist will be able to guide
    the conversation in a way that they will gather the information they need from the person they
    are interviewing. This is why scientists would create different sorts of questions for an interview
    than a questionnaire.

    2.​ Since the social scientist isn’t putting a set number of answers on a survey and are
    conducting an interview instead, they have to make sure that the questions make sense and
    aren’t biased so the person they are interviewing can give the appropriate answer.

    3.​ In a survey, many biases can occur, such as response bias. This is when a person
    deliberately gives a misleading answer. Also, in surveys, there will already be given answers,
    however, this can over or underestimate the characteristics of the population. This is known as
    measurement bias. This is simply when the choices given are limited and don’t have an “other”
    option. In an interview, like what I mentioned before, the social scientist can guide the
    conversation to extract the information suited to their needs. They would get more in-depth info
    and have a better response rate compared to a survey. Another key advantage is how the social
    scientist will be able to note the behaviour of the person answering.
    4.​ The first difference between interview and survey questions is how interview questions are
    open ended while survey questions are close ended. The second difference is how survey
    questions can have fixed answers and interview questions can provide a variety and in-depth
    answers. The first similarity is that both types of questions need to be thought out carefully so
    that they don’t contain any biases or won’t be hard to understand. The second similarity is that
    companies can use both types of questions to find more information about you.

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