Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Surveys

Advantages

1) They're a lot faster than normal, paper-based surveys and are quick and easy to fill out and complete, it only takes a few seconds or a few minutes after a push. It doesn't take very long to do them so then all you have to do is take the survey when you're doing a daily activity.

2) Cheaper research costs means that people can go out, get their results and come to a conclusion a lot quicker than other kinds of companies with surveys. They can get their results back within weeks as opposed to months like some other companies.

3) Easy to use for those taking the survey, so instead of going through a telephone conversation, they can just click away at the answers that are how they feel, it's much, much simpler. Especially when there's simple, multiple choice questions that are just one click from being done. Some surveys don't even have that many questions so it can be easy for some to just fill them out in minutes.

Disadvantages

1) Lack of a trained interviewer isn't good, as they can't clarify and it means the survey has a high chance of unreliable data. Which will lead to a conclusion that has a high chance to be either mislead or incorrect.

2) Cooperation can be a little feint, or just not there altogether, the surveys can have random response rates and they can fluctuate, sometimes people ignore the surveys entirely sometimes.

3) Limited sampling means it's harder to draw probability samples based on e-mail addresses and visitations of the site.

Top ten viewed shows of BBC1 in the past week

1) The Great British Bake Off (Wed 2002)

2) Strictly Come Dancing (Sat 1815)

3) Strictly Come Dancing (Fri 2100)

4) Doctor Foster (Wed 2102)

5) Eastenders (Mon 2001)

6) Eastenders (Thu 1929)

7) Eastenders (Tue 1929)

8) Doctor Who (Sat 1945)

9) Eastenders (Fri 2000)

10) New Tricks (Tue 2100)

I believe the target audiences for all of these shows in general, would've been adults, maybe teenagers when it came to Doctor Who. Otherwise I'd say that it was aimed at those that are aged at potentially 20-46, the shows are more calm, mostly, and are usually easy to follow to a certain extent.

Some of the shows aren't fictional either, they're realistic, often filmed just there on the spot (i.e The Great British Bake Off). This seems more the thing for older people who don't want imaginative shows, just shows showing how people handle and overcome situations and obstacles.

The top 5 UK films to gross this week are: Legend, Everest, Macbeth, I Believe in Miracles and Miss you already. In total they grossed £1,806,951.