Originally Posted by
Gresp15C
I appreciate your caution, but this is pretty common: Business and marketing students are expected to complete a "capstone" project that shows basic literacy and data analysis ability. Conducting a survey satisfies the requirement to collect some kind of market data.
I find it hard to believe a professor would want a student to conduct an online survey which can easily be skewed and spammed. Do any actual pollsters use online polling? Nope.