Originally Posted by Sink r8

You ask the last page of questions first, and ask people where they want to put emphasis. Start with what people think they need, and ask where they want to put what we can get.

Then give a simple yes/no to all the concessionary items being presented. You do NOT give people several options to say yes to a concession, and only one way to say "no", and one way to be unsure. If a majority says no to CDO's, for example, you stop there, and you don't consider the follow-up question on how exactly they should be implemented.

You do NOT ask people to rank in order of priority something they already said they don't want to do. That is the height of hypocrisy. Several times, I was ask to give a priority number to one or several items I absolutely don't want to see implemented. If I didn't want to do D and E, I still was asked to rank them next A, B, and C, which I did favor. So the survey puts my priorities down as A, B, C, D, then E! How nice...

So you can shorten the survey be eliminating these false choices.

The survey doesn't need to be longer to be accurate, it just needs to be better written to gauge sentiment in a neural manner.