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State three advantages and three disadvantages of open ended questions in a questionnaire.

State three advantages and three disadvantages of open ended questions in a questionnaire.

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Advantages.
• Open-ended questions can stimulate a person to think about his feelings or motives and to express what he considers to be most important.
• Open ended questions are also simpler to formulate because the researcher does not have labor to come up with appropriate response categories.
• The respondent’s responses may give an insight into his feelings, background, hidden motivation, interest and decisions.
• Open ended questions permit a greater depth of response.

Disadvantages.
• Responding to open ended questions is time consuming.
• Analyzing open ended questions is difficult and time consuming.
• The respondent may provide information which does not answer the stipulated research questions or objectives.
skilled writter answered the question on May 1, 2018 at 16:27

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