If you get disqualified from a survey, check to see if the profile surveys in your survey panel account have been completed. It could mean that the survey is difficult to very qualify for, or could close at any time. For future surveys completions, if you’re able to determine when a survey first became available (you can check your email for instance to see when it was first sent out), be wary of surveys that have been available for more than a few days. If a survey has closed or has enough responses, there’s not much you can do. What this can mean: this can mean anything it could be a technical error, the survey could be closed, you might have been disqualified, or you may have even been blocked. Sorry, this survey is no longer available.

But even a well designed survey will ask a few qualifying questions, and if you don’t meet the criteria for the study, you will be prevented from completing it.

You’ve been disqualifiedĭisqualifications suck, especially with poorly designed surveys that ask qualification questions at the END of a survey, rather than at the beginning (this is a big no-no in market research and wastes everyone’s time). Similar to the above, if enough people in the same demographic bucket that the researchers were looking for have submitted enough responses, you might get booted out of a survey, seemingly out of nowhere.įor instance, if a study is looking for an even, 50-50 split of males and females, and as a female, you get disqualified, the survey may still be available to men. Again, you can chalk it up to bad luck if you encounter this. There is typically no warning or notification that a survey is close to being filled when you start completing it (although a few select sites do share this information with their survey takers), so it can be difficult to determine whether the survey you just clicked on is 98% full or 5% full. This is also an unlucky situation where as you were completing the online survey, enough responses were collected and the researcher either manually ‘closed’ the survey, or the survey software automatically closed it off. If you are unlucky enough to be completing a survey when these technical errors occur, unfortunately, there’s not much you can do other than try to either re-take survey, or contact the survey provider to explain your difficulties and ask for at least partial compensation. Whether a survey panel is experiencing technical problems with their website, their surveys software, or a particular survey, technical issues do happen. Virtually nothing online works 100% perfectly 100% of the time, and online surveys are no different. Why is it that you can’t always complete online surveys and that they can suddenly ‘close’ when you’re in the middle of completing them? What’s the reasoning behind this all-too-common problem? Technical errors

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