SURVEYS:

SURVEYS

• Provide wide angle views of large groups
• Researchers use interviews or questions to ask people about their behavior, attitudes, beliefs, opinions, or intentions.
• Psychologists use surveys, conducted in person or online, to collect data on almost anything behavior related and, mental process, from parenting to sexual behavior

SURVEYS

• Validity of surveys depends party on whether the wording is clear and how questions are phrased.
• The way a question is worded can influence a certain answer. If you suggest that someone is more sick due to the weather they may report more symptoms compared to when the weather is not suggested.
• Validity also depends on the group being surveyed. It must represent the group be in studied properly.

OTHER COMPLECATIONS

• People may not want to reveal undesirable or embarrassing things about themselves. Or they will say what should be said
• In an example, people were asked if they wash their hands after using the bathroom. While the survey said 95 percent said yes, an observed experiment found it close to 67 percent