Problem: Article: Simply put, what do you hope to gain from your survey? The questions you ask all need to point back to this essential idea. For example, say that you're an employer and you want to figure out whether your employees are happy. The survey questions you ask, either directly or indirectly, need to address the happiness of your workers. You could ask them directly, "On a scale of 1 to 10, how happy are you at work?" or you could formulate a more indirect question, like "True or False: I wake up every day feeling like my work has a purpose." After you've designed all your survey questions, it might be helpful to go through each question and ask yourself how each one is helping you accomplish the goal of the survey. Any question that doesn't give you essential information about your survey objective should be removed. If your goal is to figure out whether your employees are happy, you want an honest answer. In fact, with surveys, you always want honest answers. But it can be tough to get an honest answer if your employees feel like they could lose something respect, standing, etc. by being honest. Think about whether or not you need to tweak your survey in order to get honest results.With an employee happiness survey, for example, you might want to give respondents the option of completing it anonymously. Some options include telephone surveys, face-to-face interviews, surveys by mail, and Internet questionnaires. Each survey method has advantages and disadvantages, which should be weighed against the budget, available personnel and other considerations. In general, face-to-face interviews, although they are costly and time-consuming, deliver the most representative results and finest granularity in responses. On the other hand, online questionnaires sometimes come with significant biases, but they are the easiest and cheapest surveys to administer. If you're only going to rely on one form of survey, such as an online questionnaire, consider surveying more people to make up for possible biases. For the cleanest results, you might want to administer several different kinds of surveys. A survey that involves one or two respondents will tell you something about each one of the respondents, but it will not provide much accurate information about trends. In order to figure out how many people you should survey, you'll need two pieces of information: The size of your population. What population do you want to understand? If you want to understand happiness at your company, your population is the size of your company. If you want to study adoption of condom usage in Uganda, your population is the size of Uganda, or roughly 35 million. The certainty that your results are accurate. With survey accuracy, people talk about two ideas: margin of error and confidence interval. Margin of error is the degree of uncertainty you have in the results of your survey. Confidence interval is the degree of certainty you have that the survey samples the population accurately. Once you've answered the above questions what population am I targeting? and how accurate do I need to be in my results? you can start thinking about how many people you'll need to survey in order to get the desired results. In the table below, select your target population on the left, then select your margin of error to estimate how many surveys you'll need. As a general rule, the more surveys you give, the lower your margin of error will be.
Summary: Establish the goals for the survey. Spend some time thinking about how you can ensure the most honest answers. Decide on the best survey method to collect valuable information with the survey. Think about ensuring accuracy in your survey. Based on your target population and desired accuracy level, select your sample size.

Problem: Article: Your daughter may feel more comfortable and excited about learning to use the potty if the experience is tailored to her. Choose a training potty or training seat with a design or color that appeals to your little girl. If possible, write her name directly on the training device, or allow her to decorate the sides of the training potty with colorful stickers. Similarly, when it is time for your daughter to switch to underwear instead of diapers, choose colorful, fun designs to make her feel eager about wearing them. Your toddler may feel apprehensive about climbing onto the potty since it seems so unfamiliar, but you can help ease her anxiety by allowing her to transition into the process gradually. Let her start with her clothes on. By allowing her to sit on the potty with her clothes on, you are allowing her the chance to get accustomed to the view and to the way the seat feels. Transition to a pants-off approach after a week or so. After she seems comfortable sitting on her training potty with her clothes on, she might be ready to sit on it with her pants off. If she resists, though, give it more time. Avoid getting into fights or power struggles that could dampen the experience and make her even more resistant. Children often have an easier time determining when they need to use the bathroom without clothing on. Make sure that your daughter's training potty is nearby, and rush her there as soon as her body language suggests that she needs to go. Encourage her to sit until she goes. Keep her entertained while she's waiting. Supply her with a stack of picture books, or a few toys to play with. Books and videos that are about potty training are especially helpful because they will reinforce what you are trying to teach her. Girls are at a higher risk of developing urinary tract infections, and girls in the middle of potty training are at an even higher risk since they are more likely to spread bacteria around. Instruct her to move the toilet paper from front to back. If she cannot remember to move the paper in a certain direction, teach her to pat herself dry after she urinates.
Summary: Personalize the experience. Get her acquainted with the toilet. Allow your toddler to sit bottomless for a little while. Teach her to wipe correctly.

Problem: Article: The fine teeth will allow you to cut the laminate flooring face up without chipping it. Hold a piece of paper around the pillar or pipes and trace around the objects. Cut out the paper pattern, and then lay it back down to test for accuracy. This may take a few attempts to get the exact shape you want the laminate to be. Once you can successfully place the pattern around the obstacle, you're ready to draw the shape onto the laminate flooring. With a standard jigsaw blade, flip the laminate plank upside down. Place the pattern on the backside of the laminate, making sure to flip the pattern, so your cut laminate is positioned to come out correctly when the plank is flipped face up. Hold the jigsaw vertical, so the blade runs smoothly from one edge of the laminate to the other. If cutting the laminate face up, place painter's tape on the laminate along the pattern to keep it from chipping. Mark the cut line on top of the tape and cut with a jigsaw with a special blade.
Summary: Choose a jigsaw with a standard blade or one with a laminate flooring jigsaw blade with fine teeth. Make a paper pattern to help you make curved cuts and avoid wasting laminate flooring. Cut out the curved shape.

Problem: Article: Keep in mind, however ,if you are cutting warm bread, you'll need to go for thicker slices. This will help keep the bread from going all mushy. Hold it just firmly enough to keep it in place, but not so firmly that you are squashing it. Keep the knife at a slight angle. Position the knife so that it is parallel to the cutting board. Carefully bring it down towards the board. If the bread is warm, you might have more luck with thicker slices.
Summary:
Use an electric knife to get thin slices or to cut warm bread. Hold the bread lightly by the sides. Turn the knife on and cut into the bread slightly from the side. Cut straight down once you pierce the crust. Cut the slices as thin or as thick as you want them.