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Data Detective: Ask a Survey Question
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Today I am practising: writing a fair, answerable categorical survey question
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Choose a survey topic: favorite fruit or favorite color.
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Write or dictate one question everyone can answer.
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List two or three answer choices.
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Ask three people the same question.
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Record one mark for each answer.
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Tell an adult what your data can and cannot tell you.
- Keep the survey to familiar choices and a small number of respondents.
- Read the exact same question to each person so responses can be compared.
- Explain that the survey reports only the people asked, not every child everywhere.