{"id":60415,"date":"2024-03-21T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/?p=60415"},"modified":"2024-04-04T08:50:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:50:56","slug":"fun-survey-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/fun-survey-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise: Fun Survey Questions Get More Responses!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ll say it up front: Fun survey questions are not for everyone or every circumstance.<\/p>\n

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However, fun questions can be exceptionally useful for uncovering people’s feelings indirectly when the results are analyzed by experienced researchers. For example, consider questions like “If you were to break a world record, what would it be for?” or “Imagine the zombie apocalypse is happening right now. What’s your survival plan?” Probes like this give researchers a deep insight into the respondents’ resourcefulness, creativity, and natural tendencies.<\/p>\n

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In addition, the \u201cfun survey\u201d category is popular with employees and consumers alike. Why? People get a kick out of answering off-beat questions (it’s engaging). On the surface, random survey questions for fun don’t carry ominous undertones of probing for human weaknesses (particularly in employee work situations).<\/p>\n

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Another thing: Fun questions don’t connect directly or traditionally to a marketplace or business agenda, brand, team cooperation, a boss’s attitude, customer service<\/a>, reactions to promotions, product changes, etc. As a rule, they’re quirky, indirect, and, while inside the theme, unrelated to standard research techniques, thus encouraging respondents to be truthful. You’ll find that casual, entertaining quizzes (versus serious probing questions around a transparent subject) more effectively remove bias from the answers they generate.<\/p>\n

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In short, creating interesting survey questions is a unique skill that enables you to develop penetrating research projects that everyone enjoys. Read on to learn more about this fascinating subject.<\/p>\n

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Why are amusing survey questions important?<\/h2>\n

There are a few crucial points to remember:<\/p>\n

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  1. Research focused on fun survey questions is a viable pathway to understanding people’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior patterns. However, it requires a sound sense of balance\u2014combining funny survey questions with serious ones, sometimes as icebreakers to warm the respondents to the exercise.<\/li>\n
  2. You want your audience to complete the survey, not drop it midway. One of the best ways to ensure this is by sprinkling fun questions.<\/li>\n
  3. Funny surveys put participants at ease, removing “suspicion” of a hidden agenda behind the questions, thus encouraging truthfulness and frank sharing of opinions.<\/li>\n
  4. The idea is not to be funny for “funny’s” sake. As intimated above, responses to fun survey questions, especially with the support of psychology training, allow us to pick up on inner personality drivers guiding respondents’ behavior.<\/li>\n
  5. Finally, although “fun” headlines this survey category, it’s slightly misleading. Why? “Interesting” is more to the point versus trying to make the audience laugh. These categories work amazingly well when connected to a pastime, hobby, love for travel, music, food tastes, figuring out puzzles, or imagination games that intrigue us.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Fun question categories<\/h2>\n

    ICE-BREAKERS:<\/strong> An ice-breaker is a fun conversation-starter to warm up your audience and get the thoughts flowing. For example: Start every question with \u201cDescribe XXX in one word,\u201d where XXX is:<\/p>\n

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