30 December 2008

Do You Want the Right Answer?

I've just completed one of those web forms people put in front of useful information before giving you access to gather market research data.

This was published by an information security organisation:

Partial screen caputiure of an online form with the question asking the user to 'check all that apply' - the problem is the options are radio buttons so only one can be selected.

I'm afraid I couldn't "check all that apply" since the nice form only had radio buttons and I didn't feel inclined to edit the HTML myself. Would that have been hacking? Other questions on the same form had the same problem. It didn't instil any confidence in me about their design and testing processes.

Data quality is important. Junk data in will lead to junk answers out.

Posted on: 30 December 2008 at 11:18 hrs

Comments Comments (0) | Permalink | Send Send | Post to Twitter

Comments

Comments are filtered automatically and should appear shortly after they been checked.

Post a comment
Confirm acceptance and understanding of the terms of use
New posts to this thread will be sent to your email address
Do You Want the Right Answer?
http://www.clerkendweller.com/2008/12/30/Do-You-Want-the-Right-Answer
ISO/IEC 18004:2006 QR code for http://clerkendweller.com

Page http://www.clerkendweller.com/2008/12/30/Do-You-Want-the-Right-Answer
Requested by 38.107.179.220 on Tuesday, 7 February 2012 at 21:08 hrs (London date/time)

Please read our terms of use and obtain professional advice before undertaking any actions based on the opinions, suggestions and generic guidance presented here. Your organisation's situation will be unique and all practices and controls need to be assessed with consideration of your own business context.

Terms of use http://www.clerkendweller.com/page/terms
Privacy statement http://www.clerkendweller.com/page/privacy
© 2008-2012 clerkendweller.com