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Help! Quick 4 question survay as part of an essay.
Hi all,
   I know this is rather an unusual request but I need to do a survey as part of an major essay for a class.  If anyone is willing to participate that would be great.  I don't know if you all know the site survey monkey but it is pretty much the standard site for doing these things.
If any of you are willing to re-post the link in other spots that you know of that would help me out greatly.

Someone told me that 2 of the questions accidentally allow you to choose both true and false.  This is a mistake on my part.  Please only choose one.
And I'm only looking for what you know off the bat.

Thank-you so much!

[Edit] The survey site wont take more than 100 responses so thank-you so much everyone.  You all came through wonderfully.
« Last Edit: April 08, 2010, 06:24:44 am by Darklord42 »

 

Offline The E

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Re: Help! Quick 4 question survay as part of an essay.
Those questions do seem a bit bogus......

It's like "Pink Elephants may exist, true or false?"
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Re: Help! Quick 4 question survay as part of an essay.
Well that was fun. :)

 

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Re: Help! Quick 4 question survay as part of an essay.
Those questions do seem a bit bogus......

It's like "Pink Elephants may exist, true or false?"

They do if you have an elephant and a few gallons of pink paint. 
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Re: Help! Quick 4 question survay as part of an essay.
"may" exist

of course that's true
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Re: Help! Quick 4 question survay as part of an essay.
FYI, I guessed on the Super Bowl...
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The future makes happy, if you make it yourself.
No war; think about happy things."   -WouterSmitssm

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Re: Help! Quick 4 question survay as part of an essay.
Lol, you are absolutely right they are rather leading, but it's ok for what I'm actually looking for.  And it's ok about the super-bowl,  I forgot myself and I watched the darn thing.  That was just for fun and a test.

Thank-you so much guys, keep em coming!
« Last Edit: April 07, 2010, 08:29:22 pm by Darklord42 »

 

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Re: Help! Quick 4 question survay as part of an essay.
Done. Gotta love indefinite terms like "may" and "might".
"I have approximate knowledge of many things."

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Re: Help! Quick 4 question survay as part of an essay.
Yet another reason why statistics are so easily manipulated:  survey questions are easily written to provide a result their author wants to see, and/or wording can be so misleading as to confuse the issue.

Write a better survey and I'll happily answer it, but I have a personal hate for manipulation in statistics and - intentionally or not - your questions are so poorly worded (excluding question 4) as to make the results completely devoid of any meaningful data.  Then again, if that was the point of the exercise and the resulting essay is on the topic of statistical irrelevance then kudos, you've succeeded admirably.

I might also recommend the book "How to Lie With Statistics" by Darrell Huff (who was not a statistician) as a great place for anyone with an interest in statistical manipulation to start.  My personal favorite is amplified graphs - I can make anything, no matter how irrelevant, look like an earth-shattering result with a simple graph.
« Last Edit: April 07, 2010, 11:02:15 pm by MP-Ryan »
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Re: Help! Quick 4 question survay as part of an essay.
or conversly, you can make stuff you can't explain disappear in, oh, say, a lab report on thermal hydraulics
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Re: Help! Quick 4 question survay as part of an essay.
Well I'm actually writing an essay on media manipulation.  But thanks for the support everyone. I've completely filled what the site allowed.
« Last Edit: April 08, 2010, 06:20:56 am by Darklord42 »

 

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Re: Help! Quick 4 question survay as part of an essay.
Question 2 is kinda worded oddly..yeah he had them, buy he wasn't making them like we said he was. 

Also, the native Hoosier in me had to vote yes on the fourth question :D
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Axem -  I don't know what I'll do with my life now. Maybe I'll become a Nun, or take up Macrame. But where ever I go... I will remember you!
Axem - Sorry to post again when I said I was leaving for good, but something was nagging me. I don't want to say it in a way that shames the campaign but I think we can all agree it is actually.. incomplete. It is missing... Voice Acting.
Quanto - I for one would love to lend my beautiful singing voice into this wholesome project.
Nuclear1 - I want a duet.
AndrewofDoom - Make it a trio!

  
Re: Help! Quick 4 question survay as part of an essay.
Actually, we didn't find any completed or in the process of being made.  But thank-you for the responses.