Survey Questionnaire
I am going to give surveyors different type of methods the military uses to recruit minors (video games, visits to schools, commercials, magazine ads, etc.)…
- Which method do you think is the most effective and why?
- On a scale from 1-10 how persuasive is each method?
- Do you find this method really persuasive? If so, what makes it so persuasive?
- Do you think a specific race, gender, or class is being targeted? If so who?
- If you think specific minors are being targeted, why do you thing these types of children are?
- What is your opinion on child recruitment?
- Do you feel the children of our country need to be protected from child recruitment? If so, who do u think should be protecting them?
- Does child recruitment effect you in any way? If not, do you still care?
- Do you support our military’s recruitment practices overall?
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This questionnaire looks good.
About #3, I am not sure what “this method” means? How will you make clear what method you are speaking of?
To #6 you might add, do you support military recruitment in secondary schools? Why or why not?
To #7, you might revise to say “If you feel the children of our country need to be protected from child recruitment, who do you think should be protecting them?”
One other thing I notice is your rhetorical choice to use “children” rather than “minors”? I wonder if using “children” shows your bias and manipulates the ways in which your participants view the questions. A “child” essentially is defined as boy or girl who is under 15 (through puberty). It seems that if you were talking about recruitment of middle school kids, then you might need to first let audience know that they are being recruited because not everyone is aware. Also, I do think people will think differently about recruiting children and minors. How will you accomodate those differences in your questionnaire?
Hope this feedback is useful. You are off to a good start here.
Comment by rhetoricsofwar | July 22, 2008 |
#1 and #3 seem very similar I wonder if there’s a way to ask the question that gets you more information. Maybe you can reword #3 to say “If you think this method is really persuasive, what makes it so?” though it’s still very similar to #1.
I wonder if there’s a way you can ask beyond their opinion. Maybe see if they have evidence for their opinion. Have they noticed child recruiting methods? What support have they seen/heard/experienced that backs them up in saying a certain group is targeted?
I’m curious why you want to know WHO “we” think should be protecting children from recruiting practices. It seems that you are trying to inspire people into motion, parents, activists, etc… but how does knowing who a small public group thinks should be responsible for children play into your end goal; understanding recruitment strategies as it relates to children and comparing that to the overall opinion of the war? Are you targeting the education system? modern family values? public responsibility?
Comment by Anonymous | July 25, 2008 |