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Matters, You can link to the last RSS article Creating Web Based
Surveys with Zope - An Open Source Application Server By Dr.
Rich Herrington, Research and Statistical Support Services
Manager Web based surveys are becoming more popular as an
alternative to conventional surveys. A major reason for this is
cost. In Figure 1. we see that an Internet based survey is
always cheaper by a substantial margin: Figure 1. From "Using
the Internet for Quantitative Survey Research", by James H. Watt
(1997). Additional reasons for implementing a web-based survey
include the speed with which: 1) a survey can be created, 2) a
survey can be distributed, 3) the data can be collected and put
into a form which can be analyzed. Furthermore, as survey data
are collected, the survey can be modified if problems arise
during the survey process. Potential drawbacks with internet
surveys can involve biased survey responses if the population
under study is not representatively sa