Somewhat Agree…
I took Quantitative Analysis as my research method in grad school. Not because I’m particularly adept at figuring out a standard deviation, but because it seemed like a more trustworthy method than its swirly-skirt sister, Qualitative. (I know. I’m a horrible affront to research. Keep in mind this was San Francisco, so… Swirly.)
In such data-collecting method, there’s a phenomenon: survey fatigue.
Non-sampling errors are other errors which can impact the final survey estimates, caused by problems in data collection, processing, or sample design. They include…improperly designed surveys, over-surveying (or survey fatigue).
When you ask too many questions, and the respondent just starts answering, “Somewhat agree. Somewhat agree. Somewhat agree. Zzzzzzzzz.”
Now, if you want to give the impression that you care about someone’s opinion, but you know..you don’t really, this would be an excellent design for a survey. Make it seven pages long, with 193 questions per page. Then people bail out, you “did your part” and you can proceed as you wanted to in the first place.
Never underestimate, however, people with incredibly strong opinions and nothing but time. It might not be a statistically-accurate data sample, but you’ll end up knowing precisely what I think, in a Hawthorne Effect-free kind of fashion.
(If there WAS a qualitative portion of this survey — and you CAN mix methods if you want to — and the question was like, “Please upload a sketch and fabric swatches for a useful design…” I could help you out with that one, too.)
