Music Questionnaire Summary
For this task i was asked to create a music questionnaire to find out about peoples taste and habits when it comes to their music, , Firstly i created a list of questions and narrowed them down to ten , i then used www.survey monkey.com to create a online version of the survey(see picture 1 and 2). The software on www.survey monkey.com was very useful as it allowed me to quickly create a questionnaire and it was easier to distribute than traditional paper based questionnaires as the site provided a online link to the survey. The method i chose to distribute this was by posting the link on my private Facebook page(see picture 3) . The response to the questionnaire was relatively quick , an advantage to this method is that people can fill the questionnaire in, in their own time , when it is convenient for them rather than having to approach the participant and ask them questions when it might not be convenient, this allowed me to collect the data some what quicker than paper methods , another advantage of this method is that the survey monkey software automatically collects the data and represents this graphically which allowed me to move on to the analysis stage more quickly than other methods. A main advantage of primary research in general is that it is unique results that have not been collected before meaning that you can tailor the questions and results, to some extent ,to your needs. A disadvantage to this method i found is that results our only as good as the questions ,if your questions are not very good then you cannot expect your results to be , i found this out as i effectively wasted my opening two question's by asking the participants first and surname. A Further disadvantage to this method, especially multiple choice questions, is that the user preference may not be represented in the choices available for that question , you can't cater for everyones choices as you would be able to if you provided a text box to answer in, A disadvantage to multiple choice questionnaires is that you may not always get a correct/honest answer as the user may just click boxes to get to the end of the questionnaire more quickly. To conclude , i think that primary research is a useful tool , but has various drawbacks stated above , i think that the task went relatively well without any major hiccups. |