While the emails containing
the surveys were simultaneously sent for each organization, both organizations should
have been administered the surveys simultaneously for all participants. The responses
from the university participants were not significantly different than those of the chamber
members but if they were it would have been difficult to tell whether it was due to their
organizational membership and/or when they were administered the survey. Also while
organizational members were emailed the surveys simultaneously, there was no
practical way of achieving simultaneous administration of the actual instruments. This
also likely had an effect on the low 5% response rate.