By Dean Caporella
 What are the biggest mistakes people make when applying for paid surveys? The industry has received a bad rap in many circles mainly because of a few unscrupulous operators however, it still remains as one of the few genuine opportunities for people to add some extra income to their bottom line every month.
One of the attractions of the paid survey arena is it's promise of making easy money. People are obsessed with earning a fast busk and more to the point, earning it for very little work.
Yes, paid surveys offer you the opportunity to earn money for little work but for newcomers to the business, negotiating their way through the legitimate opportunities is like attempting to safely walk through a minefield.
Believe it or not, being successful in paid surveys does require work and it's not just a "walk in the park." The nature of the work is easy but maintaining a constant stream of opportunities filtering through to you can take a little doing.
Five Paid Survey Mistakes
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By Joseph Jordan
 Surveys are standardized to ensure reliability, generalizability, and validity (see quantitative marketing research). Surveys are a mixture of science and art, and a good researcher will save their cost many times over by knowing how to ask the correct questions. Surveys are flexible in the sense that a wide range of information can be collected.
A survey may focus on opinions or factual information depending on its purpose, and many surveys involve administering questions to individuals. Serial surveys are those which repeat the same questions at different points in time, producing time-series data. Structured surveys, particularly those with closed ended questions, may have low validity when researching affective variables.
There are several uses of the word survey, relating to two primary meanings: surveys to record the position of items or fixed points on Earth and beyond, such as astronomical surveys, bird surveys, and the broad field of land surveying; and statistical surveys estimating the number of people or other items, such as animals, organisations, or messages. Statistical surveys focus more on establishing the numbers or proportions of items than their |
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