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Customers · Customer survey, Q2

Is the difference between customer groups real?

The apparent 0.42-point gap fell to 0.07 once partial responses were included.

What went in

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2
Rows
1,857
Period
Apr 14 – May 26
Verification
19 checks passed

Source files

  • survey_responses.csv1,840 rows
  • question_codebook.xlsx17 rows

What came back

1,840
Responses
71.2%
Completion rate
2
Significant effects

The finished project

survey_responses.csv
1,840 rowsChecked

The difference you were testing for is not there. Two you were not testing for are.

The gap in satisfaction between new and long-standing customers disappears once completion bias is accounted for — unhappy new customers were far more likely to abandon the survey, which flattered the group they left behind. Two effects that were not the subject of the survey do hold: response speed predicts satisfaction, and the two reverse-coded questions were being answered inconsistently enough to distort the overall score.

1,840Responses
71.2%Completion rate
3.9×Mean satisfaction+6.0%
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Unhappy new customers stopped answering

  1. 01The new-versus-established gap is an artefact of who stopped answering.
  2. 02Two questions were being read the wrong way round by respondents.
  3. 03Response delay predicts satisfaction better than any segment does.

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