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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Thought for the day - OB markers
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."
-- Noam Chomsky (1928- ) Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Contributed by Ho Cheow Seng
-- Noam Chomsky (1928- ) Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Contributed by Ho Cheow Seng
Monday, January 5, 2009
Survey – a service to business
Knowledge is everything. It is important for a business to know what its customers, employees and other stakeholders think and what drives their behaviour and action.
A survey is useful in getting information that can help you to make the right decisions.
We provide a service to help you to design the survey questions and to give you a link that you can send to your target audience. They click on the link to reply to the survey. It is easy.
We will give you a weekly progress report until the survey is closed.
2. Cost
The cost is modest. You pay a fee of $1 per survey reply, subject to a minimum of $100 per survey. There is no additional charge to create the survey form of up to 15 questions. For each additional question, there is a charge of $3.
3. Contact us
If you are interested in this service, send an e-mail to tkl@tankinlian.com with the following:
Your name:
Your company name:
Your e-mail:
Your mobile nr:
A list of survey questions
Thought of the day - Democracy
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
(1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice
Contributed by Ho Cheow Seng
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
(1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice
Contributed by Ho Cheow Seng
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Website to post results of surveys
I wish to ask for a volunteer to manage a blog to post the results of the surveys. I need the survey results to be presented in a chart (where appropriate) and to write some comments. This person should be able to use an appropriate software (e.g. WordPress or Blogger). If you are interested to spend time on a vountary basis, send an e-mail to kinlian@gmail.com.
A survey is useful, in spite of its limitations
I am actively using surveys in this blog. I find the results to be useful, as follows:
> It collects the views of a larger number of persons (instead of one person's views)
> Usually 25 replies are sufficient, as results are usually close to a larger sample
> The respondents are usually random and generally unbiased.
There are obvious limitations - hence the results have to be used with caution. Furthermore, it is important to phrase the questions fairly, so as to obtain useful answers.
Some people argue that it is important to select a proper sample. I agree, but this is costly and difficult to achieve. In the absense of this budget and luxury, a simple sample survey on the internet is better than nothing. As someone said, "knowledge is everything".
I wish to encourage people to use sample surveys to gather information for business and social decision.
> It collects the views of a larger number of persons (instead of one person's views)
> Usually 25 replies are sufficient, as results are usually close to a larger sample
> The respondents are usually random and generally unbiased.
There are obvious limitations - hence the results have to be used with caution. Furthermore, it is important to phrase the questions fairly, so as to obtain useful answers.
Some people argue that it is important to select a proper sample. I agree, but this is costly and difficult to achieve. In the absense of this budget and luxury, a simple sample survey on the internet is better than nothing. As someone said, "knowledge is everything".
I wish to encourage people to use sample surveys to gather information for business and social decision.
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