Need help finding survey respondents for school project (musicians/guitarists) - by Uberchargedpixel
Uberchargedpixel on 3/10/2024 at 12:45
Hello! I've been an active lurker on the forums for a while now, mainly on the Thief FM forums, but my hand has been forced and I've come to ask the TTLG forums for help. Please let me know if these kinds of posts are not allowed in the community chat, or on the forums in general.
I'm in a marketing class at UCF conducting research on a new product idea for musicians, specifically people who play the guitar. My group is supposed to get at least 100 respondents by this weekend (Sat/Sun), but we started a lot later than I had hoped and currently only have 20 respondents who have fully completed the survey.
All answers are kept anonymous, and no personal information is shared.
If you are willing to take around 5-10 minutes to complete my team's survey, I will be most grateful.
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https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4YZy5d1w0aEoIWG)
Nicker on 4/10/2024 at 02:41
So, a survey with one question?
Did I just get phished?
Uberchargedpixel on 4/10/2024 at 08:38
Quote Posted by Nicker
So, a survey with one question?
Did I just get phished?
No, you just didn't get past the screener questions. If you didn't choose the option that you play a musical instrument, then it brings you to the end of the survey. I should have mentioned that all answers and data are kept anonymous, I apologize for that.
Nicker on 4/10/2024 at 12:13
It would be better to filter for participants by explaining who your targets, are on the introductory page, where the privacy disclaimer should also be.
As a back up, when someone gets screened out, explain that, otherwise it looks very suspicious.
Uberchargedpixel on 4/10/2024 at 12:33
Quote Posted by Nicker
It would be better to filter for participants by explaining who your targets, are on the introductory page, where the privacy disclaimer should also be.
As a back up, when someone gets screened out, explain that, otherwise it looks very suspicious.
I completely agree with you, but unfortunately the survey is deliberately designed to be vague due to my class. The purpose of the survey is to be as broad as possible to find the right targeted people and filter out everyone else, in this case guitarists who use also use guitar picks, and to have less bias in the searching process. It's also a survey created by my group, so I didn't have a lot of sway on how it was written. I'm grateful for your feedback, btw! I'll bring up some of these points with my group.
Nicker on 5/10/2024 at 17:15
Even surveys targeted at people who could benefit from contributing their feedback, are lucky to get a 10% to 15% response rate. Most people hate surveys.
The best result we got where I work, for feedback on a popular event, was about 30%.
I am not sure what your instructors are trying to teach you about surveys but if it is to how discourage participation, they are on the right track.
But if you want tips on doing it better, let me know.
Uberchargedpixel on 5/10/2024 at 21:47
Sure, I'd like to get some tips, thank you!
For the past two days I've been going through a lot of different online places to distribute my survey to try and reach 100 respondents. Even though it was to be expected that the screeners would filter out most people by design to eliminate bias or whatever my professor wanted, it blocks out way too many people. I was very lucky to get even 4 successful responses from a single online guitar forum, out of countless places I've distributed my survey to.
The issue is a mixture of the target audience being really narrow, and on top of that 3 screener questions that drastically lowers the probability of success at each one (you must click: musical instrument -> guitar/bass -> "Yes" to using a guitar pick). So posting on general forums will pretty much screen out what few people who bother to take the survey. Also, most music/guitar forums ban surveys, so I can't even post my survey to the target audience. Just a mess all around.
Discendo Vox on 6/10/2024 at 06:06
You're unlikely to hit your target sample. Bluntly, your instructor should have warned and provided instruction on the challenges of collecting this sort of information; it's going to be very hard to get an accurate sample even with directed funding.
Uberchargedpixel on 6/10/2024 at 14:46
Quote Posted by Discendo Vox
You're unlikely to hit your target sample. Bluntly, your instructor should have warned and provided instruction on the challenges of collecting this sort of information; it's going to be very hard to get an accurate sample even with directed funding.
Yeah, I realized that pretty early on. To my professor's credit, he did tell my team to start early, though I'm still not sure why the prof made our screener questions so difficult to pass. He told us to find online places to distribute it without really specifying, but even the places he recommended turned out to not work because a lot of online music/guitar forums ban surveys. Basically just bad luck.
A lot of problems also lies with my team. Our concept idea was nothing more than a last minute assignment submission I had to forcefully remind them to submit an hour before the deadline. There was no planning ahead on our concept of "guitar pick that you can stick to velcro on a guitar". Even after my professor kept using our concept idea as an example of a "nuisance" during class, which is essentially a small problem that doesn't warrant a new product to solve, we still went with it. Business students are something else.
Out of a team of 5, only myself and one other has been pulling their weight in distributing the survey. We have barely reached 50 as of yesterday, but that's only because I had to bother and ask some friends to help me distribute it as well, no thanks to my own team.
Aja on 11/10/2024 at 14:38
I took your survey! I guess I shouldn't discuss the subject in case anyone else here takes it. Wasn't too onerous.
