Matt's Online Journalism Blog

Friday, March 03, 2006

OJ: Examples from ABC and USA Today

I have just been searching around for some more examples of quizzes and surveys. Here they are, and my thoughts on them:

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/US/story?id=1577055 - Rudeness Quiz - This is a quiz to basically see how rude you are! There are five questions with a simple 'yes' 'no' answers. When you click 'yes' or 'no' it opens a popup window, which I gather registers your vote with them, which they can then use for statistical data. Then at the bottom, there is a link to find out how polite you really are. I think this would work well for ABC to get some stats, but isn't very entertaining to do.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/popup?id=148085 - A daily news quiz by ABC, which tests your knowledge on the days news. This one has right/wrong answers, and actually tells you the correct answer after choosing your answer. This seems to work better than some of my previous examples, as it gives a final grade at the end of the quiz.

http://www.usatoday.com/img/content/flash/
gburnout/frame.htm
- "Are you burned out?" is made with Flash, which makes it look more interesting. It calculates your answers and gives you a summary at the end, and allows you to view the other point scores.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/
nation/polls/usatodaypolls.htm
- Results from a survey about the 2004 US elections. Very detailed results!! Other survey results can be found by using the links on the left of the site.

Have fun if you’re going to try them!

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