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Checking your data

Checking your data

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Checking your data

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Just like with a paper sort the results from an online sort can be a bit messy. Also, because we weren't there to watch the sort take place we need to check that people actually performed the sort properly, rather than just randomly sliding cards around in order to get their gratuity. There are a couple of steps we need to go through to check that we got valid results. And to clean up the data before we start the analysis process. Let's get back to our card sort result by clicking on the View Results button for the Hansel and Petal survey in our list of surveys. We already talked about the Overview and Participants tab, but it's worth pointing out that you can choose to ignore or even delete any participant data by choosing those options for a participant on the Participants tab. You might decide to do this if a participant contacts you and says they had trouble with the sort then started it over. You can delete their first attempt so it doesn't mess up your data. This page also lets…

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