(1) Social research design in USM with APEX status, has to follow certain research objectives so as to satisfy desired specifications because the quality of the information (or data) obtained depends on how it is acquired.

(2) It is claimed that Malaysians in general are inclined to refuse participation in social science related research. On this view, if the case studies are conducted with Malaysian-based organizations, the quality of the research may be dubious or even questionable by the panel.

(3) As sometimes the target subjects of experiment may not have the proper participative behaviour, it may be necessary to modify the research design. This can be done by introducing a component to the social research with a proper configuration. And this procedure is sometimes known as compensation to human research subjects.

(4) However, the usual compensation schemes are not capable of satisfying all specifications at the same time; only circumventing certain issues because some are contradictory to each other. Therefore, two elements in the research must be balanced: (i) performance and (ii) robustness. All in all, you may need to rely on the minimization of cost criteria.

Perhaps there is something Malaysian social scientists can cooperate to solve. Where do you think the problems might break down? And how do you feel we should explore the causes of behavior?

Kudos to you who must have done a considerable amount of literature review in questionnaire design and attitude measurement. By the way, what would constitute significant difference between early respondents and late respondents?

Have you started carrying out social surveys for your doctorate research? There are so many good things to learn from you, specifically on the critical treatment of questionnaire design problems such as faulty research designs, errors in sampling, ambiguities in question wording, biases in interviewing, losses of information, and the interpretation of attitude scales and of projective data.