Monthly Archives: October 2013

To Find Out What’s Really Going On, Experiment

Posted on October 21, 2013 by George Beam

Although survey research is commonly used to investigate everything (“everyone asks everyone about everything” is the way I put it in my book, The Problem with Survey Research), thereby generating unreliable information about virtually everything) some researchers obtain reliable information by field experiments.  For … Continue reading →

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Survey Research Feedback: Assessing and Moving Beyond

Posted on October 7, 2013 by George Beam

Everyone’s asking for feedback: manufacturers, motel operators, professional associations, professors, physicians, hospitals, cancer centers, newspapers, government agencies, Facebook, Twitter, TV personalities; actually, it’s probably impossible to find a single individual, group, or organization that doesn’t.  And everyone is asked for … Continue reading →

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