Automatic validation of survey results
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1. A method for automatically validating the results of an online survey, comprising the steps of:
- identifying a subset of potential conclusions from the set of potential conclusions that can be derived from the results of the online survey for validation, selecting one or more research design tools for validating the selected subsets of potential conclusions either individually or combination, defining a group of participants for validating a selected subset of potential conclusions and determining the criteria for validation, applying the research tools on said group of participants for conducting a controlled experiment in a manner that obtains the desired information implicitly, analyzing the results of each experiment for determining the degree of validation, and reporting results of the validation.
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Abstract
The invention describes a method, system and program product for online automatic validation of the survey results that have been conducted online. The invention uses various libraries and tools to analyse the results and conduct new implicit experiments so as to extract more information from the user in order to validate the results of the original survey.
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1. A method for automatically validating the results of an online survey, comprising the steps of:
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identifying a subset of potential conclusions from the set of potential conclusions that can be derived from the results of the online survey for validation, selecting one or more research design tools for validating the selected subsets of potential conclusions either individually or combination, defining a group of participants for validating a selected subset of potential conclusions and determining the criteria for validation, applying the research tools on said group of participants for conducting a controlled experiment in a manner that obtains the desired information implicitly, analyzing the results of each experiment for determining the degree of validation, and reporting results of the validation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system for validation of online survey results comprising:
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a validation criterion determination tool for generating a list of potential conclusions and their subsets from the results of the online survey, working in conjunction with a research design tool for selecting appropriate conclusion subset/s for validation, a library of analytical techniques comprising tools and techniques for data mining, prediction, learning, classification and statistical analysis and other business intelligence tools, a research design library containing a set of experiments used by the research design tool to decide on the appropriate validation experiment, a respondent selection tool operating independently or in conjunction with the research design tool to select the participants on which the validation experiment is performed, a validation metrics determination tool, an analysis tool for analysing the results of each experiment, and a reporting tool for providing the results of the analysis. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A computer program product comprising computer readable program code stores on a computer readable storage medium embodied therein for validation of online survey results comprising of:
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computer readable program code means configured for determining the set of potential conclusions from the result of original online survey and for selecting subsets of conclusions to be validate either individually or in combination with each other, computer readable program code means configured for selecting the research design to validate the chosen subsets of conclusions, computer readable program code means configured for selecting the participants for said research design experiment and for determining the criteria for validation, computer readable program code means configured for conducting the implicit experiment, and computer readable program code means configured for collecting, analysing and reporting the result of the implicit experiment. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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