Re: OT: Survey about trust and participation in online communities
- From: bae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 24 Apr 2007 22:53:31 GMT
In article <1177448025.831502.134220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<sryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello there,
At the beginning of the month, I posted a message asking you to
participate in a web survey about trust and participation. If you have
filled out the survey, thank you!
If you have not had a chance to take the survey yet, I would
appreciate your reading the message below and I hope that you will
consider participating in my research.
This method of survey subject recruitment will get you neither a
representative sample of the population you wish to study, nor a
preponderance of honest answers to your questions.
Please, before you waste any more time and effort on this futile
collection of meaningless data, consult a statistician. At UofT you
can talk to people at the Statistics Consulting Service at the Dept of
Statistics. They consult both with graduate students and other
researchers. The time to talk to them is now, not when you go to write
up your results and discover that they are useless.
Note also that constructing a survey which won't bias the respondents'
replies is not a trivial task, but a field in itself. You should take
a copy of your survey with you to the consultation, as well as having a
clear idea of exactly what you hope to learn from your survey. The
more precisely you can state your goals, the more likely you are to
achieve them.
.
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