Good Survey Questions: 40 Question Examples for a Great Questionnaire
“Surveys are the most dangerous research tool,” says Erika Hall, author of Just Enough Research. “If you write bad survey questions, you get bad data at scale with no chance of recovery.”
As attention spans get shorter, there’s growing pressure to make surveys lean. More and more people take surveys on their phones, and if the survey is too long, they drop out.
How can we make the survey short and still get the information we need? By writing better questions. This post separates the good questions from the bad—and shows you exactly how to write them for seven scenarios:
- Current customers;
- Engaged prospects;
- Recent converters;
- User testers;
- Churned customers;
- Site visitors;
- Content strategy.