Dear Jason and dear all, I have amended the document by removing the unnecessary silly final requests. All I would ask you to do is date it for me.
To be _clear_, all fields are optional. Provide as much or as little
info as you desire - from the doc, "All information you provide will
remain private and anonymous. Nothing will be published without your
prior consent. None of the information is obligatory, answer as many
or as few questions as you wish – though of course I would greatly
appreciate as much detail as possible."
I will provide a Google Docs form/survey in the next couple of days
for all those who prefer that entry method and then I shall leave you
all in peace. Thank you all _so_ _so_ much for your cooperation and I
look forward greatly to your responses.
Best wishes and kind regards,
Anthony Durity
2011/7/11 Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com>:
> 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
>>
>> 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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