http://dbd.game/killswitch
Lack of Survey accountability
I posted this on questions but it was taken down, I am curious as to community thoughts to these questions in a survey the consisted of 65 questions when an additional 5 more question in a Likert scale would have sufficed or adding a I disagree with both options would have been better.
Comments
-
Questions like these are why I stopped taking the surveys. Any answer I give is going to be extremely misleading in the data.
I'm not sure a Likert Scale is totally necessary for all of these, I just think the the questions need to be reworded.
I wouldn't even want to answer #22, because neither are true statements for me.
11 -
What was the deal with the cosmetic questions? Does anyone actually care a lot about that?
7 -
Haven't taken this one yet, wonder if it still says meeting cheaters 25% of the time is "rarely".
5 -
I still want someone to explain to me what Renato's power is supposed to be, because the survey definitely has questions like "How to do rate the quality of Renato's power".
9 -
When they ask who your killer main is but don't include Demo in the list of choices...
11 -
I thought I was blind, and I legit spent like 5 minutes double and triple checking that I wasn't missing the one true good boy.
Sad Demo Noises
4 -
I don't think the surveys are made well. They remind me of the ones you'd get from a student when the teacher doesn't look over the survey/give feedback before they hand them out. It doesn't feel well edited - typos, bad copy paste like asking about new survivors power, and questions/answer options just poorly worded.
You have random % of questions reworded or sections not given to players at all - has nothing to do with previous answers, it's just randomly selected what batch of questions you will/won't get. Usually these are the questions that months later they make changes that surprise people because they didn't get those survey questions.
You get alot of questions that feel like they are designed to give BHVR answer they want rather than a real answer. Then there's alot of the questions that have you using answers that just don't fit the question - which in some cases it feels like it's due to the person making the survey wanting to use every "type" of survey question offered on Survey Monkey rather than sticking only to the ones that work with the questions.
4 -
Truth. Almost every one of those I left the slider in the middle because neither answer was correct. The one that I didn't do that on I only nudged it one click over to one side.
1 -
umm...
a lot of the time surveys are intentionally designed to avoid negative responses. the reason for that varies.
only the designer of the questionnaire can completely explain the thought process behind the survey.
however, since we're just commenting on it with our opinions - my opinion is this.
- surveys that exclude certain members of a community are biased.
- surveys that pigeonhole answers are biased
- surveys that utilize only quantitative or qualitative measurements are biased.
- surveys without a sample size of at least 5% of the total community are biased.
- surveys that engage in an opt-in or opt-out format are biased unless the conclusion drawn my opt-out is "neutral" and counted towards the total responses.
- Any survey that refuses to utilize the number zero on a scale of 0-10 or refuses to utilize the words equivalent to zero in this regard will be biased.
- using a "this or that" scenario in a survey is the equivalent of basing an argument on a false dichotomy. which is a logical fallacy. which makes the data biased.
- surveys that have an agenda or an underlying narrative already applied to them are prone to suffering from responses being lead along to a universal conclusion. this means it's biased.
when it comes to surveys there is really only 1 real survey model that is tried and true.
ask a close ended question.
present the answers as 5 tiers:
"disagree", "neutral", "agree", "not applicable", "did not understand the question"
then proceed to ask your questions.
add "slightly" options to "agree" and "disagree" for more variations to answers.
give 1 point to answers that are 1 space away from neutral. give 2 points for answers 2 spaces away from neutral. give 0 points for N/A, did not understands, and neutral. keep a separate tally exclusively for "did not understand the questions" and if a lot of those show up consider redoing the questions and resurveying.
for any desired feedback - leave a feedback box at the end for comments.
then do your p and z scores like any stats analyst would and should. sample size too small? do it again. it's like people that make these things have never seen a stats class and are exclusively psychology based. which is terrible for survey creation. gotta have a background in both.
7 -
I usually most of time fill out surveys just because.I mean there are certain times I will avoid them. But I will agree they can be tiresome. By which I mean that there are way too many similar and repeated questions. I also think some of the questions to me that is can be a little bit confusing due to how weirded worded they are. But at the end of the day I will always tried my best to give my honest feedback.
1 -
I also noticed this, like ok i will select trapper but where is my demo?
4 -
I actually like those questions, but I think they would have driven me crazy when I was younger. It depends on how you interpret the purpose of the question.
When I was younger, I would have looked at Question 23 and thought the purpose was to find out the main reason people play Dead By Daylight, and thought that the question was structured in such a way that I was being forced to say something that wasn't true, because neither option is the main thing that draws people to DBD. And then I would have felt like I was being manipulated, and I would have gotten angry.
Now, when I read Question 23, I understand it to mean, "Between these two specific things, which do you think influences people more (regardless of whether either thing influences them most)?" And I think the motivation behind asking the question is probably that they're trying to gather data to inform marketing decisions or we don't know about. So I just click the option I think is more true to help them out.
1 -
The big issue I have with the questions is the sliders only lead to positive outcomes or results. there is no way to abstain, so no answering the question almost seems like it will just be I am in between.
3 -
I certainly agree with what you are saying. The issue I had was I literally would abstain from these question simply because I would not do either. It felt as though these questions lead to your second bullet point where we as the surveyees had no real option. In addition, for a survey that spans 65 questions, creating another 5 questions to allow for better answers wouldnt make too much of a difference imo.
1 -
Tbh i haven’t seen the full survey. I’m not sure if i can even take the survey or not, but your feelings are valid. I have no clue what you mean by adding 5 more questions. The questions you presented seemed flawed to begin with.
0 -
All of the questions about the cosmetics was ridiculous-- asking me how I felt about them, and it was ONLY their female survivor's cosmetics.
Came across as largely sexist imo.
Truth be told a lot of the questions in this survey missed the mark.
1 -
Why dont they give a character limit and just let us type whatever?
Easier to find out how everyone feels on the game that way.
0 -
I actually started taking the survey, hit this group of questions and stopped caring, then saw all the cosmetic questions and then being to wonder, who actively made these survey questions.
1 -
honestly if they did that, it would take so long to actively sort. I say that as I have actively had to create subsections based on opinion for any other comment questions. The issue is if they are creating these types of surveys and using that as sole analysis that is a huge issue, because regardless of what is being presented it almost seems like you are not doing anything wrong.
1 -
Maybe I'm missunderstanding you but you have to take stats classes to get a psychology degree.
1 -
Just-- why were so many questions asking me what I thought about these girls dressed in their oufits?
I don't give a damn, lol, and not a SINGLE one was for David, Dwight, or anyone else. This was absolutely ridiculous.
1 -
a class only teaches those who learn.
0 -
I was only asked about Kate's outfits, did you get other characters aswell?
Fair enough.
0 -
It was long enough to put me off doing it again. Cosmetics was nail in coffin almost.
0 -
What would you be asking,. because I do agree with the point that was made, my issue is with what I posted was there was no opt out option and with the way the questions was posed it reflected the idea of we will take both as valid answers
1 -
I didn't mean to criticize Wydyadoit's criticism and I do agree with you that those questions are very weird.
My comment was solely about Wydyadoit's last paragraph, because you need to pass stats classes to get a degree in psychology, so I don't understand how someone could only have a background in psychology but not in stats, but that is totally unrelated to your valid criticism about those questions.
1
