Pilot Survey

Once I finished my draft, I prepared to send out my pilot survey. A pilot survey is a draft you send out to a small percentage of your target population. Pilot surveys are conducted to ensure the survey is accurate and to evaluate different aspects of it such as duration, difficulty, and such. I sent my pilot survey around to five people and looked over their responses regarding the quality, accuracy, and clarity of the survey. I asked them these questions:

I had to make a few changes to some questions. For example, I realized that I should not have made this question compulsory to answer since only people who are new to the site should answer this question.

Another change I made was deleting unnecessary questions. I deleted the question pictured below because it is biased and does not give the respondent two different choices (yes and no). All of the answers are affirmative.

I also had the respondents tell me how long it took for them to complete the survey to make my estimate more accurate.

RESPONSES

I got a total of five responses, with most of the respondents being female. Here are the results of the survey:

The top question in the picture below is a new question so the respondents didn't see it. I added the question to replace the question I deleted, which I mention earlier in this blog post.

FEEDBACK

  

The feedback I received was really useful since I was able to pinpoint the flaws of my questionnaire.