השוואת שיטות

	איסוף נתונים מבוסס API שעבר פיילוט	סקר שעבר פיילוט
תחום	מתודולוגיית סקרים	מתודולוגיית סקרים
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	2000s–2010s	Widely formalised from the 1970s-1980s
הוגה השיטה	Convergence of survey pilot-testing tradition (Presser et al., 2004) and computational social science API methods (Salganik, 2018)	Systematic practice codified by Jean M. Converse and Stanley Presser
סוג	Applied data-collection variant	Survey design and validation procedure
מקור מכונן	Salganik, M. J. (2018). Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 978-0691158648	Converse, J. M., & Presser, S. (1986). Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803925557
כינויים	pilot API data collection, pre-tested API harvesting, API data collection pilot study, pilot-validated API scraping	pre-tested survey, survey pre-testing, questionnaire pilot study, survey field test
קשורות	4	6
תקציר	Pilot-tested API-based data collection is a structured digital data-gathering approach in which a researcher designs an API query or harvesting script and then runs a small-scale trial before executing the full collection. The pilot phase exposes authentication issues, rate-limit constraints, schema inconsistencies, and coverage gaps, enabling targeted refinements that protect the integrity and completeness of the final dataset. It bridges the software-engineering practice of integration testing with the social-science tradition of instrument pre-testing.	A pilot-tested survey is a structured questionnaire that has been administered to a small, representative sample before the main data-collection phase. The purpose is to detect problems with wording, response options, skip logic, or timing, allowing the researcher to refine the instrument before it reaches the full sample. Pilot testing is not a separate research design; it is a quality-assurance step embedded within survey methodology that substantially reduces measurement error.