...and now for another Human Factors Minute! Surveys and questionnaires are commonly used reserach techniques that are used across multiple disciplines including human factors. Surveys and questionnaires have an advantage in that they can be administered to a large group of people, using e-mail for example, at relatively low cost, enabling the researcher to gather a large amount of data in a short amount of time. The downside of these quick methods can be the validity of the data that's obtained. Validity of Survey data can be questionable, as the questions must be written and interpreted correctly by the reader, and are, by definition, subjective. Further Those who actually respond are in effect self-selecting as well, widening the gap between the sample and the target population. This has been another Human Factors Minute! Be sure to check out our main show at our official website: https://www.humanfactorscast.media Support us on these platforms to get access to the entire Human Factors Minute library: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/humanfactorscast Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hfactorspodcast Join us on Discord:https://go.humanfactorscast.media/Discord Follow us: Human Factors Cast Merchandise Store: https://www.humanfactorscast.media/p/Store/ Follow us on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/HumanFactorsCast Follow us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/HumanFactorsCast Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/humanfactorscast Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/HFactorsPodcast Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HumanFactorsCast Resources: Music by Kevin McLeod: https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/

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