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One thing that I always encourage my children to put into their reports, especially when it involves some sort of survey or experiment, is an introspection section or sorts where they discuss the potential flaws with their methodology, how it might affects the results, and what further measurements/surveys/etc could be done to come up with a better solution.
They've been doing this since their third grade science fair projects, and even though I make them do them alone (with the help of leading questions and suggested reading, but not the actual work) they've always scored very well.
Did you talk to him at all about the problems with surveys, particularly online surveys? I worry that children often get the wrong idea when they do these reports that this is how statistics and measurements are taken -- it reinforces the poor understanding of numbers that most people have (something I blame the schools for, for not teaching them to think critically).
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