[citation][nom]razor512[/nom]My reasons for supporting my conclusion of the questions being railroading is as follows: (these are all based on my opinion)Question 1: nothing wrong with itQuestion 2: For a survey targeted at a community where the majority of the users build their own systems, it strongly focuses on prebuilt systems (and the results seem to show this)Question 3: Nothing wrong with this questionQuestion 4: Also nothing wrongQuestion 5: Nothing wrongQuestion 6: Nothing wrongQuestion 7: Nothing wrongQuestion 8: If you ask which tablets someone wants and you list a few specifics and offer the other option where a user can type an answer, all things being equal, humans will choose an answer that requires less work on their part. (list 4 Chinese knockoffs with slow CPU's and resistive touch screens and I bet you will end up with a significant number of people really wanting those tablets at least based on a survey)The rest of the questions seem goodWhen creating surveys (part of some work required in a research psychology class), if an extremely specific question was asked, if it was a multiple choice with an optional other; students rarely ever filled out the "other" even when the multiple choice items intentionally unpopular choices. (and when making the my contribution to the survey I put questions along the lines of " Which types of shows do you enjoy watching with your family: Yaoi, Hentai, boring, and other (with a option to write down that the other was). I don't remember the question exactly but many students chose yaoi (most people don't even know what that is); it is easier to bubble in a small circle to a provided answer than it is to type one out).[/citation]
Thanks for this feedback. Your most constructive criticism was on question #2, but I just want to point out to you that this article was published on Tom's Guide, which emphatically *does not* have an audience that builds its own systems--you're thinking of Tom's Hardware, our "brother site." As for the fill-in-the-blank question about tablets, I personally don't have a problem with the way the question was asked, but more importantly, we did not deduce any stats from that question, we simply wanted to see which write-in answers were most popular. The tablets we suggested in the question were not necessarily the most frequent write-ins.
Rachel Rosmarin
Managing Editor, Tom's Guide