Posted by FullHouse on March 06, 2008 at 08:36:36
In Reply to: Re: Survey for posterity posted by D on March 03, 2008 at 16:59:21:
This is a great idea but needs some more work. Here is a book that might help, your local library might have more.
http://www.amazon.com/Improving-Survey-Questions-Evaluation-Research/dp/0803945833/ref=pd_sim_b_img_5
In wikipedia (follow related links, specially questionnaire construction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questionnaire
And there are many other resources about how to ask questions that will be answered, that will not add bias to the answers, and that one will want to answer truthfully.