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Survey & research glossary

Plain-language definitions for the terms you'll run into designing and analyzing surveys.

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Margin of error

How much a survey result might differ from the true value across your whole population, expressed as a plus-or-minus percentage.

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Matrix question

A grid-style question that asks respondents to rate several items (rows) against the same set of answer options (columns) in one compact table.