Research excellence: Three Rs that can make research more predictive

This article provides three core principles that can improve the success of tracker surveys, which currently suffer from falling response rates, faulty answers and flawed analysis.

Research excellence: Three Rs that can make research more predictive

Jan Hofmeyr

Tracking surveys are in trouble, but their plummeting response rates, faulty answers and flawed analysis can easily be solved by the disciplined application of three core principles.

Imagine two people, a man and a woman. On the 37th question in a tracker survey, they are asked how likely they are to take a holiday in Thailand next year. The man answers "very". The woman answers "not very". We conclude that Thailand is likely to have one visitor; and it'll be a man. We advise our client to prepare...

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