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January 7th, 2008

Writing Effective Surveys - Scaling

Part of gathering useful statistics is making effective surveys.  Many of your surveys will include questions that ask the user to scale something from 1-5.
The first mistake people will make is assuming the user thinks 1 is the worst and 5 is the best.  If you don’t say “Scale these from 1 to 5 in […]

By Jim Gordon -- 0 comments

January 3rd, 2008

Your Friends and Family Lie - Redo Your Statistics

Have you ever asked a group of friends and family if they liked one of your ideas? Have you ever personally given them one of your products and asked “Hey, this is good, right?” How many of them said “no”? According to this article on CNN (taken from Fortune), a venture capitalist […]

By Jim Gordon -- 6 comments