Finalizing our 5 Questions for the Survey

I like the idea of broadening to include both the Arctic Sovereignty and Afghanistan, but this is more feasible in a longer survey. We have 5 questions and thats all. If we include general questions, then questions about Afghanistan and Arctic that leaves 1-2 questions on each subtopic, not enough to get any type of resourcefulness from the survey. I mean the 5 questions is pretty limited, so we have to make a choice here. In my opinion, we could broaden it but it takes away from any type of in depth analysis we could possibly do. Honestly, if we had more then 5 questions I would like the idea of subheadings and transitioning between topics, but I just think 5 questions is much too small a limit to do this here. Maybe it would better if we keep general questions like this one:

Below are figures on military spending as part of government expenditure: 19.3% US 18.7% Russia 7.1% Australia 6.3% Canada 6.3% UK 5.4% France Canada should increase or decrease its defense budget (next year, etc.) (Increase significantly 2. Increase 3. No Change 4. Decrease 5. Decrease significantly)

...and not have questions that specifically refer to Afghanistan or Arctic. What do you guys think? In a way then if we keep the questions general, we are still focused on defense but not focused on one issue like Afghanistan or Arctic, which were the concerns of some below. In my opinion, we keep it on defense in general like the question above, and not those that refer to our other two focuses directly.

Thoughts?

JordanFernandez03:37, 8 February 2011