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Lauren

I thought the article was very compelling and spelled out the differences between a survey and other forms of information collection.  The advantages of mail and telephone interviews are the  number of people you can talk to in a limited amount of time.  A person has to ability to send out thousands of mailed interviews in a single day, and call hundreds of people for a phone interview.  The main disadvantage is the number of positive responses you get per person you reach out to.  Mail gets thrown away without even being opened, and on the phone people frequently get annoyed their time is being taken up, or that they were contacted at all.  In-Person interviews on the other hand have a better response, people are worse at rejecting people to their face, but too if they set up the interview they are more likely to be willing to talk.  The disadvantage to an in-person interview is that there can only be so many interviews per day if you're visiting each one or even if they are visiting you (Types of Surveys 2008).  

I think one of the hardest things when it comes to survey data is an even sampling.  Are there enough men and women represented, or people of several different races, age groups, economic status, with the mixes like enough poor women and men.  That said, the advantage is how much information can be gleaned from a successful survey.  

Types of Surveys (2008).  Research Methods Knowledge base.  Retrieved from http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/survtype.htm