On 7/11/11 4:16 AM, William Stein wrote:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Anthony Durity
<anthony.dur...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello again!
First of all, thank you so much to everyone who has already replied.
Recently I put out a request for volunteers to answer a few questions.
I got some responses but considering there are 1331 (11^3 , an
Your attached odt file begins "All information you provide will remain
private and anonymous.". The first question you ask after that is for
my first and last name.
In what sense is this anonymous? So I'm not convinced you have
thought through how to do human subjects research... (I don't claim I
have either, but I had to deal with a review board for human subjects
research at Univ of Washington a few weeks ago for a grant I'm on, and
it was clear that one of my co-PI's *had* thought through doing human
subjects research, and I learned something from what they did.)
It also seems weird ending with "I certify that the information given
in this application is complete and accurate." and requiring a
signature.
Incidentally, Harald Schilly has done some surveys in the past with
very similar questions to the Sage community. He used Google Docs
forms [1], which are much more pleasant to fill out than Word
documents, and the information in them automatically goes into a
spreadsheet. You might consider using them or something similar.
[1] https://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=87809
auspicious number) members in this mailing list according to Google I
thought I would repeat my call. But this time I will attach the
questionnaire rather than ask you to respond to me individually -
though of course you can do that also.
May I just say that I realize that you are busy and that this request
may seem as somewhat tangential to your project and your work but I
would like to convince you that it is in your own best interest to
respond. And if you don't respond I would like to hear your reason
also if that would not be too much trouble (no time / could not be
bothered / do not see the value in it / and so on). The questionnaire
is not that long (I personally hate form-filling myself) and none of
the answers are obligatory, all information is private and
confidential, you will remain anonymous and I will not publish
anything without your consent. Honest.
I would much more readily fill out the survey if:
1. it was a google docs survey, for convenience
2. Question 1 was cut down to only asking "Profession:", for anonymity.
Thanks,
Jason
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