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Library of surveys for deliberation experiments
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Design and Validate short-format alternatives to long surveys #96

Closed JamesPHoughton closed 1 month ago

JamesPHoughton commented 1 year ago

As a researcher, I want to measure a large number of outcomes of deliberation, because I expect that different practitioners will have different priorities, and I want to be able to tailor my recommended intervention to those priorities. However, participants have a finite attention span, and get fatigued with answering lots of surveys (even the professional survey takers). So, we want to design our surveys so that we get the most out of them, without overburdening the participants. (More concisely, if I can cut each survey in half, I can ask twice as many of them).

Currently we have several surveys (e.g. listening, autonomy, psychological safety) that have lots of questions in them. We may be able to take subsets of these surveys and create "short" versions that give us the same amount of information as the longer surveys. We would need to very carefully validate these truncations, if we are planning to deploy the surveys widely.

JamesPHoughton commented 1 month ago

we have a number of these now, closing this issue because it isn't specific enough to be actionable at this point.