Surveys, Assumptions, and the Need for Data Collection Alternatives

April 2, 2012
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(This article was first published on House of Stones » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

This is a long post. My previous posts have mostly been about my thoughts on various research subjects. This one reports an actual analysis. If you don’t want to read the whole thing, here are the highlights: We really need to stop using surveys so much. If we have to use surveys, it’s probably best [...]

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