Total Survey Design
Total Survey Design is a podcast for explaining the complexities of survey design. This podcast serves a diverse audience, including academics, small business owners, nonprofits, industry professionals, and students. Each season features episodes covering topics from survey utility to sample sizes, and question design to total survey error. Episode content includes insightful discussions, expert interviews, and special event coverage to enhance your survey skills and understanding.
Total Survey Design
Latest Episodes
Designing Surveys for Multilingual Populations - Part 2. An Interview with Rubén Ángel Arias Rueda
In this episode of Total Survey Design, Dr. Azdren Coma sits down with Dr. Rubén Ángel Arias Rueda, Project Manager and Lead Researcher at Washington State University's Social and Economic Sciences Research Center, for the second part of a two-...
Designing Surveys for Multilingual Populations - Дизајнирање анкети за повеќејазични популации
In this episode of Total Survey Design, Dr. Azdren Coma explores what it takes to design surveys for populations that speak two or more languages. The episode explains why measurement equivalence (ensuring responses mean the same thing across l...
Personal Appeals in Contact Letters: How More Appeals Means More Responses
In this episode, I explore research by Lena Le and Thom Allen at Washington State University on the use of personal appeals in survey contact letters — the persuasive statements that encourage people to participate, like explaining how results ...
How the Dunning-Kruger Effect Skews Self-Reported Skill Ratings
In this episode, Dr. Azdren Coma explores how the Dunning-Kruger effect distorts self-reported skill ratings in hiring and surveys. A seemingly straightforward question like “On a scale of 0 to 10, how skilled are you in Microsoft Excel?” can p...
Writing Good Survey Questions - Part 3. Open-Ended Questions
In this episode, I will be talking about open-ended questions. Along with closed-ended questions, open-ended questions are the other major type of question used in surveys. This episode covers the purpose of open-ended questions, their pros and...
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