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Corycia
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I'm a Grad student trying to finish my Master's in Video Game Production, but I'm getting stuck.
I need almost 400 responses on my survey about personality, playing games, and game hardware.
I need suggestions on how to get more people to take the survey! Where should I post the link? What forums won't just flame me for asking them to take a survey? Any advice helps.
Also, it helps if you take the survey and pass it along to friends, family, coworkers, etc. You can even post the link around if you are feeling uber-helpful.
Here's the link:
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/164007/full-thesis
Thanks:P
I need almost 400 responses on my survey about personality, playing games, and game hardware.
I need suggestions on how to get more people to take the survey! Where should I post the link? What forums won't just flame me for asking them to take a survey? Any advice helps.
Also, it helps if you take the survey and pass it along to friends, family, coworkers, etc. You can even post the link around if you are feeling uber-helpful.
Here's the link:
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/164007/full-thesis
Thanks:P
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I only mention it to make sure you are linking the correct survey. If you would like people here to respond to it, I would mention how long you believe it will take. Food/bribes at a mall sound like a good plan - be sure to check with the manager of any store you are stationed in front of. Good luck!
he mentions right on the front page that he expected it take 45min - 1 hour
personality stuff for the first many questions, then some stuff on video games. But yeah, a lot of the question seemed very repetitive - however if I understand it right, this is often required in surveys for educational studies to ensure you receive fully correct data
My mistake, clearly my multi-tasking skills are lacking today!
What do you intend to gain from this? Why do you need so much information? You need to run this past someone experienced in this, like an experimental psychologist (if you're humanities) or HCI person (if you're engineering) and get this cut down drastically.
Then, like NotYou said, you can hit public places with your laptop, and get people to do it there.
I'm looking for online communities that I could post to. Even if each one only yeilds a few responses each one helps.
If you'd like to help, I'd appreciate it
If you want to ask people in the street I'd bring a gun with me, because no one is going to take an hour out of their day to answer questions to some dorky student unless you hold them at gunpoint. In general, people in the street have at max 5 minutes to waste on you and the thicker your survey looks to them the less likely they are to help you.
Listen to this poster. You need a really good justification for such a long survey.
that shit shouldn't be over looked for a master's. This was covered in an intro psychology class I had.
Poor guy. ):
By the way, you guys are actually seeing the fourth version of the test after some industry profesionals, the Dean of Research, the Dean of Graduate Studies, and a liscenced psychologist (aka my thesis committee) got hold of it.
Fuzzy, your right 8-); this is actually done on a Likert scale, just with hidden numbers.
Well he did register just to make this thread.
It's a help and advice forum not just an advice forum. He needed help, we supply, it's pretty much what we do here. Some people's altruism isn't limited to a 5 sentence post on relationship issues I'd hardly fault them for it...
These responses are starting to make you look like an advertiser. No offence if you are not. But you have 3 posts on the forums, and they are all here, asking people to take this big personality survey, also you are ignoring people who tell you that this is ethically wrong because you aren't saying how/why you are storing or needing this information.
This combination looks sketchy to me, even if it is legit. This is the internet after all.
Which means this isn't a scam and this isn't well thought out, it means he didn't want to take the time to design his own website for 1 whole test and decided to use one that was already in place and work off of a template, which is a pretty reasonable thing to do if you ask me...
either take the test or don't, there's no use wasting posts talking about how it could be a trap.
I'm backing up Elimination here; obviously YOU know what the survey is about, however you're asking people to take part, without a full explaination of what it is. It is NOT enough to tell us that it's a survey about attitudes towards videogames, nor that it's been run past your thesis committee.
The "industry profesionals, the Dean of Research, the Dean of Graduate Studies, and a liscenced psychologist" that you mention need to be named, with their qualifications and possibly a contact address should also be listed- for all we know, you could be making it all up.
The front page info:
The survey will gather information about your personality, attitudes toward playing video games, and video game hardware preferences. This data is being collected as part of Master's Thesis in the field of Applied Technology through the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, AZ.
The survey consist of 170 questions and may take 45 minutes to 1 hour to complete.
In the upper right hand corner of the screen is an option to save your survey and return later if you would prefer to complete the survey in multiple sittings. This option requires an email address which will only be used to receive information about completing this survey.
Your time and participation are greatly appreciated. If you would like to encourage your friends, co-workers, or family to also complete this survey that too would be appreciated. Please remember that all participants must be over the age of 18.
Please complete your survey before September 14, 2009.
is completely insufficient as it does not say who has approved it, and does not state the limits of how the information collected will be used etc. If you were to amend the front page to reflect this, it would go a long way towards building trust with those kind enough to take part.
Also, it would help if you'd stop being evasive regarding people's ethics and rights questions. If you don't have an answer to these, don't go for your master's. A key part of research is that YOU are accountable for whatever data you publish. If that data was collected using dubious practices, no matter how unintentional this was, it will be picked up for this, and such a thing will completely undermine the work that you did.
Yes but to the average person they will have a reaction similar to the one i posted. Am i wrong in that? I guess i worded it wrong, but that was what i was getting at. I mean the poster keeps avoiding the ethics questions on this thread, or flat out seemingly ignoring them. It just looks shadey, and a lot of advertisers will use any means necisarry to gain the information he is trying to get. Guising himself as a student is something i would not put past them. Sure it may not directly scam us, but the information that is being collected here may aid in future scamming.
This is not an unreasonable train of though imo.
Not an unreasonable train of thought at all, but an average user isn't going to even blink about there not being a privacy policy included with the survey (which there really, really should be) or that the poster is starting to sound like a spammer by dodging questions. Honestly, the average users is going to be all like "oooooo I might get a smiley package if I finish the survey OMG PONIES LOLLL!!!1111oneone". You greatly overestimate the intelligence/common sense of the average user.
As fr the survey, Corycia, you need to provide more info on what this survey is for, what the data will be used for, etc. If it's just for your project and the data will be burned/deleted afterwords, that's fine and probably preferable; but you need to state that.
Keep in mind that just like an employee going on Facebook, by attaching your school's name to it, your representing them as well. And you said they approved it, so if they didn't or if there were requirements you ignored, you may want to reconsider.
And I honestly can't think of any other boards that would give half the replies that we've done here. You won't get suggestions, you'll get flamed/banned.