- Nine proposals for the survey.
- I haven't gotten all of your "final surveys", yet, but we'll discuss some of the things that resonated with you (compare or contrast with what resonated with me).
Then we'll talk about the ideal survey.
- Let's finish the sample calculation we were working on:
- Now I want to spend a little time talking about what's next:
- We calculate some statistics (Moran's I), for different measures of poverty or well-being or ....
- We need to decide if these are unusual, or the result of randomness
- We compare against a distribution, obtained by simulation. Let me describe what that will entail, using an example from our class: What's the chance that we have an honors class of 12 signed up of all women?
- Now on to the final survey. Some comments and ideas that resonated with me:
- Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
- Incentives (Haley has some numbers!)
- Negative versus positive statements: e.g. using "unsafe" versus "safe"
- Do we have a mix of question/statements, or just one kind? Consistency?
- Likert scale
- with or without neutral option?
- with numbers (1-5) or words (agree/disagree)?
- Will large sample size wash out random variation?
- Sample from streets or events?
- York or Monmouth as divider (if we use a divider)?
- Should we "peer test" our survey on a small group?
- I'm going to want to form three teams to wrap up our survey: I'm calling them the
- Location search and advance (LSA)
- Final survey prep (FSP)
- Protocol and incentive (P and I)