Online Research study - Type One Diabetics

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Well - when a company decides to produce a template to publish surveys on, anyone can use the template from schoolkids to MENSA members or the late Stephen Hawking. So - it ain't going to be that 'advanced'.

However certain things tend to also hamper the 'researcher' like eg I well recall being informed by a Uni Psychology Research Professor that they had sought official info from the Government on the average reading age of the UK adult population. This was in the late noughties. We were asked to guess, round the table. The actual answer was Age 10 years old.

So designing a survey open to UK adults about almost anything, often cannot use the terminology they use every working day of their PhD student lives for starters! If you only ask the slightly more advanced readers - like, one would assume, us lot - is it fair or equitable to completely omit the other folk out there responsible for the low reading age?

I shouldn't think the majority of Microsoft Office 'owners' would even know you can anchor your 'Title' line and produce a 1000 line Excel spreadsheet or your 'Sub-Title' column and make it 1000 columns wide either (don't quote me on the 1000 LOL) Can you even do that in ordinary Office or does it need to be Pro these days? 'Basic' doesn't even have the 'Comments' feature that is there in all its glory in the 'Student' version that Universities use.
 
All done Sian.🙂
 
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Well - when a company decides to produce a template to publish surveys on, anyone can use the template from schoolkids to MENSA members or the late Stephen Hawking. So - it ain't going to be that 'advanced'.

However certain things tend to also hamper the 'researcher' like eg I well recall being informed by a Uni Psychology Research Professor that they had sought official info from the Government on the average reading age of the UK adult population. This was in the late noughties. We were asked to guess, round the table. The actual answer was Age 10 years old.

So designing a survey open to UK adults about almost anything, often cannot use the terminology they use every working day of their PhD student lives for starters! If you only ask the slightly more advanced readers - like, one would assume, us lot - is it fair or equitable to completely omit the other folk out there responsible for the low reading age?

I shouldn't think the majority of Microsoft Office 'owners' would even know you can anchor your 'Title' line and produce a 1000 line Excel spreadsheet or your 'Sub-Title' column and make it 1000 columns wide either (don't quote me on the 1000 LOL) Can you even do that in ordinary Office or does it need to be Pro these days? 'Basic' doesn't even have the 'Comments' feature that is there in all its glory in the 'Student' version that Universities use.
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I agree that there is definitely many restrictions when using a 'typical' population. If you tailor the study to allow the individuals with lower reading ages to be able to understand you risk frustrating those with higher reading ages and coming across as 'unprofessional'. As an undergraduate I am restricted in another way - I have to use already validated scales. This means that even if I disagree with the wording of a question I am not allowed to alter it as it has already been tested and approved by other psychologists.

As for the template, I definitely think it would be worth producing separate types of templates (or even websites) for different levels of research to allow for more advanced features. However, I imagine this would cost too much for them to bother trying.
 
Hi all,

Following comments received, I've managed to alter the study to get the headers to repeat every couple of questions to avoid people having to scroll up and down multiple times to answer!
As this is the first study I have done in this format I am still learning and so any constructive feedback is greatly appreciated. 🙂
 
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