The OP is hoping to get 500 participants. That smells like wanting to run stats, not just looking for anecdotes. And any stats from this would be junk. Unfortunately, papers often get misrepresented in the popular press. Then some people complain about how 'you can prove anything with statistics.' No, not if they are done properly and reported correctly.
bigrig420 wrote:
Lunchbocks wrote:
What's with all of the harsh criticism of the survey, hard@sses?
Wouldn't logic imply to you that this kid's project doesn't have anything to do with statistics or survey methods, otherwise the university would likely not be accredited. They probably just want to evaluate public perception for some reason and came up with the idea that they could collect information by quickly throwing together a web survey and call it a day. I would guess that the project has nothing to do with the survey other than the subject matter.
There is difference between public perception and LRC’s perception. Even if the population of interest is LRC, it still is convenience sampling and therefore the results mean nothing
bigrig420 wrote:
The OP is hoping to get 500 participants. That smells like wanting to run stats, not just looking for anecdotes. And any stats from this would be junk. Unfortunately, papers often get misrepresented in the popular press. Then some people complain about how 'you can prove anything with statistics.' No, not if they are done properly and reported correctly.
Yeah... the survey, sampling, analysis, etc. is obviously unimportant to the project scope.
Either that or this kid isn't going to pass, but I'm guessing he or she will be okay.
If OP wanted a variety of anecdotes and stories, they could just ask for that. It would be interesting. But designing a survey that takes 10 minutes to fill out, and hoping for 500 replies, is just wasting 5000 minutes of people's time to return with no usable data. Do better, and expect better.
One stat class? And that makes you an expert? Dude you must not have been paying attention in your class.
You don’t even know what conclusions, if any, will be made from the results of the survey.
bigrig420 wrote:
This is for your dissertation???? I’m in high school and have taken one stat class and can say that there are so many issues with your sampling. You can not possibly conclude any actual results from this survey. Completely meaningless
Yes but this is for a European university so it must be way better than in America because America's education system is so bad from what I hear on the internet, and Europe's education system is perfect
My takeaway is that the people that frequent the cheat threads are as big of losers as the cheats themselves.
Welcome, fellow loser!
Everyone was doing it, so we had to do it, and we did it better. But we also trained better than everyone else.
All filled out, best of luck!
bigrig420 wrote:
This is for your dissertation???? I’m in high school and have taken one stat class and can say that there are so many issues with your sampling. You can not possibly conclude any actual results from this survey. Completely meaningless
His university is not very highly esteemed in the UK - firmly bottom tier. They probably didn't bother teaching him proper sampling.
Probabaly would be best to give this survey with a pre-race goodie bag or something associated with a mass participation event. This project sounds like its more intended to get this student practice gathering a real data set and doing some analysis on it instead of actually trying to publish in a peer reviewed journal. No need to rip on the kid for using less than ideal data collection to make a practice dataset.
It's for his dissertation research paper, which is the final project of your degree usually worth at least 30% of your entire degree, not a practice project. I was also defending him rather than ripping into him - his data collection is poor because he hasn't been taught any better
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