The Two Faces of Truth Questionnaire and Surveys

Greetings in a previous publication I shared with you how important a test was, for this opportunity I will share with you how interesting the questionnaire and the survey are, since they seem the same but they are not, both options serve to collect information and data, they can be used as marketing or market research tools, even the evaluation of one person or all the people in a department.

We have as a starting point the questionnaire, this is an instrument that allows us to know data or information, which is informed can be handled in a quantitative or qualitative way, through a series of questions based on a design to evaluate a particular person or several people at the same time, the questionnaires can be open, closed, mixed, when a teacher makes a written evaluation to know the knowledge of each student about a topic already given in class, or when they evaluate the personnel of a company to know if they need new training courses, at the level of medicine they make the patients to know if they have a physical disability, in general it is a very useful tool for an investigation to obtain specific data, without making statistical analysis.

Now we have the survey this is a type of technique, which is applied in the form of questionnaires for data collection to several people or group of people, in order to obtain data is made a statistical analysis, to take into account trends, behaviors, tastes and preferences about something, analyze data according to certain pre-established variables, This can be descriptive and analytical, many companies use this technique to conduct market research or when introducing a new product to see its trends, in the field of medicine makes it for medical history and application of statistics on patients, when voting for presidents, governors and mayors, apply too.

We must take into account that both are important, we only see the reality that the survey needs a questionnaire for its purpose, this technique and tools are used both in companies, schools, universities, to the population, hospitals, jobs, we have the notion that its application is important as a new learning.