Question about survey question design.

[randomness]

Does this question make any sense?

Which of the following server environments does your organization use today?

Intel/Microsoft Windows Server
Intel/Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Intel/Other
Oracle SPARC/Solaris
IBM mainframe
IBM POWER/AIX
Cisco UCS
Other
None of the above
Don't Know

In particular, does it make sense to have both "Other" and "None of the above" as options, particularly with "Other" as one of the above?

On second reading, I suppose "None of the above" might be intended to mean "Our organization don't use a server environment", but wouldn't it be clearer just to say that? Particularly since one of the previous questions was about whether the respondent's job included interactions with server environments?

Comments

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

In my experience, every survey ever sucks in its design. The problem you point out is typical, and the least of what I see in every survey even. I just won't do surveys any more because they ALWAYS cheese me off.