Survey Methods

PSYC 641 - Spring 2025

Reminders/Updates

• Peer Review of Drafts (2) - Due April 6

  • You should have received emails with a link to the papers

• Data Analytic Plan - Due April 13

• Final Reports and Presentations - Due on April 28

Overview

• Reading Question Check-in

• Overview of Survey Methods

• What about when it doesn’t work?

• Group Work

Reading Questions

• Provide an example of a panel study

• What are survey platforms that you are familiar with?

  • What about crowd-sourcing methods?

• Does order of questions matter?

• How do we improve response rates?

Survey Methods

Considerations include:

• Question Wording & Scale development

• Response Types

• Sampling

Responses

Selected Choice = True Value + Error (Measurement)

Planned Missing Data Designs

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00461520.2016.1208094#d1e163

Slider Scales

https://www.research.autodesk.com/app/uploads/2023/03/the-effect-of-visual.pdf_reczsXa6mza8VZBSN.pdf

More on Slider Scales

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0894439318755336?icid=int.sj-abstract.citing-articles.57#appendix-5

Bot Detection

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/gtp6z_v1