Well, in my opinion you can't avoid this.
Who can prevent me - as a respondent - from writing nonsense, hateful messages, or whatever in a text box in an open survey?
This is an old dilemma in market research. Online surveys are cheap and quick, but ...
Face-to-face is - depending on the interviewer - of higher quality ... but expensive.
We have always spent a lot of days filtering out participants who
Of course you could validate a text field with some of the string functions, so that certain words are not allowed.
But there are too many of them.
Sorry, no better idea.
Joffm
Who can prevent me - as a respondent - from writing nonsense, hateful messages, or whatever in a text box in an open survey?
This is an old dilemma in market research. Online surveys are cheap and quick, but ...
Face-to-face is - depending on the interviewer - of higher quality ... but expensive.
We have always spent a lot of days filtering out participants who
- always give particularly unique, quaint or witty answers
- answer every question with some ecological, esoteric nonsense
- always spread their worldview, no matter how the question was
Of course you could validate a text field with some of the string functions, so that certain words are not allowed.
But there are too many of them.
Sorry, no better idea.
Joffm
