The correct answer is D) When using survey research methods, the researcher is usually not present to clarify a misunderstanding.
While it is always important to ask clear and unambiguous questions regardless of the method used, it is especially important to avoid confusion when conducting surveys because when using survey research methods, the researcher is usually not present to clarify a misunderstanding.
Surveying methods vary according to the type of research, the number of people to be interviewed, or the kind of questions to be asked. Most of the time the researcher is looking for information that can be quantified and needs a specific kind of an answer to be computed. That is why it is important to ask very specific and direct questions that are not subjected to interpretations.