(Done!) Request: help with a class project by taking this quick (3-5min) survey

[n0tdan]

Thanks for all the responses 🙂 Your help was much appreciated!
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25 questions

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Consent form TL;DR: unless you put your information for a follow-up interview there is no personal information associated with the data submitted. The collected data will not be used in an attempt to take over the world. No harm will come to you or your cat/dog/lizard/hamster/etc. by taking this survey. You should probably read it anyway in order to verify the lizard clause though...

Ideally we are looking for participants who are older (senior citizen) but any data will help. So if you are older, or if you know someone who is older and willing to take it, please do! (Please take it regardless of age! )

Any help is much appreciated!

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

no

 

[kranky]

Easy survey, took only a couple minutes.

When creating surveys, you have to be careful when using words like "technology".

How do I answer if my friends use technology to improve their lives? Does a wristwatch count as technology? Cable TV? What about people who will use a GPS but don't use PCs, smartphones or tablets? I would think those people DON'T use it, but they probably feel that they do while proudly pointing to their GPS.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Done

 

[Sheep]

Is this 3-5 minutes or 30 minutes as noted in your consent screen?

 

[BoomerD]

Done. Seemed to be a lot of stupidly redundant questions in the survey.

Also as mentioned, what is meant by "technology?" MANY things qualify under that category.

 

[Beev]

Done. Took me just a couple of minutes.

 

[mcvickj]

Done.

 

[TuxDave]

What class is this for?

 

[n0tdan]

Thanks for the responses and feedback so far. every bit helps! 🙂

Is this 3-5 minutes or 30 minutes as noted in your consent screen?

In reality it's been taking people 3-5 minutes max. Though for the technically challenged it has taken as long as 30 minutes (yep!)

Done. Seemed to be a lot of stupidly redundant questions in the survey.

Also as mentioned, what is meant by "technology?" MANY things qualify under that category.

The redundancy is used as a measure of understanding/interpretation of the question i believe (will the same question worded differently have the same responses?). As for the meaning of "technology" I believe it's being used fairly broadly on purpose. The idea is to get a general feel of participants feelings about "technology" though being more specific would probably make the analysis more consistent. Luckily this is just to get a general idea and to help adjust future data gathering.

What class is this for?

A Human-Computer Interaction (user centered design) course.

 

[Sheep]

Done. You do realize you're not going to get anything resembling representative results by asking people on a tech forum to complete this, right? Sorry, I'll STFU now. 🙂

<--Does survey research for a living.

 

[BoomerD]

Thanks for the responses and feedback so far. every bit helps! 🙂



In reality it's been taking people 3-5 minutes max. Though for the technically challenged it has taken as long as 30 minutes (yep!)



The redundancy is used as a measure of understanding/interpretation of the question i believe (will the same question worded differently have the same responses?). As for the meaning of "technology" I believe it's being used fairly broadly on purpose. The idea is to get a general feel of participants feelings about "technology" though being more specific would probably make the analysis more consistent. Luckily this is just to get a general idea and to help adjust future data gathering.



A Human-Computer Interaction (user centered design) course.

Yeah, I figured it was something like "change the wording, look for different answers." <tricky bastard!> :biggrin:

 

[n0tdan]

Done. You do realize you're not going to get anything resembling representative results by asking people on a tech forum to complete this, right? Sorry, I'll STFU now. 🙂

<--Does survey research for a living.

Yep 🙁 luckily this is just for the data gathering requirement of the project (wont be able to use these for publication). The first round had a pitifully low number of participants so hopefully this will inflate that a little to give more believable numbers to work with in analysis.

 

[BoomerD]

Yep 🙁 luckily this is just for the data gathering requirement of the project (wont be able to use these for publication). The first round had a pitifully low number of participants so hopefully this will inflate that a little to give more believable numbers to work with in analysis.

I suspect that even those few of us here who are older that dirt, tend to not be too leery of technology.

 

[clamum]

Done.

 

[sao123]

technology makes our lives more difficult, not easier. Not because it is difficult to use, but because it becomes a crutch.

10 years ago, my work office had a few stand a lone computers, we did everything by hand. Now our entire office pretty much closes down if the power goes out, we cant process anything without our computers. the sad thing is our office is a major part of emergency management. Emergencies often involve loss of power for long times on end... we are too dependent on technology to actually do our jobs if an actual emergency existed.

Technology has also made our lives far more unsafe. Identity theft was far more difficult (if not impossible) to do before electronic banking. Someone actually had to come to your house to rob you blind. not so much today.

Computer records are so often innaccurate or incomplete, relying on them for critical medical decisions, is incomprehensible.

Internet crime is such on the rise, I couldnt ever want my house connected to the itnernet (save my PC)... The power company would be turning on/off my lights and heat as they see fit, chinese hackers would hack my freezer or my stove/oven either burn my house down, or cause all my meat to spoil.

As an industry IT professional, I am starting to believe the more disconnected you are from the technology, the better.

 

[GregGreen]

Done

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Done. You do realize you're not going to get anything resembling representative results by asking people on a tech forum to complete this, right? Sorry, I'll STFU now. 🙂

<--Does survey research for a living.

Of course it'll re representative... the question is, representative of what?

Yep 🙁 luckily this is just for the data gathering requirement of the project (wont be able to use these for publication). The first round had a pitifully low number of participants so hopefully this will inflate that a little to give more believable numbers to work with in analysis.

1) survey monkey will give you people for $3 a pop
2) you should have gotten IRB approval before collecting data.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

hum..

 

[irishScott]

technology makes our lives more difficult, not easier. Not because it is difficult to use, but because it becomes a crutch.

10 years ago, my work office had a few stand a lone computers, we did everything by hand. Now our entire office pretty much closes down if the power goes out, we cant process anything without our computers. the sad thing is our office is a major part of emergency management. Emergencies often involve loss of power for long times on end... we are too dependent on technology to actually do our jobs if an actual emergency existed.

Technology has also made our lives far more unsafe. Identity theft was far more difficult (if not impossible) to do before electronic banking. Someone actually had to come to your house to rob you blind. not so much today.

Computer records are so often innaccurate or incomplete, relying on them for critical medical decisions, is incomprehensible.

Internet crime is such on the rise, I couldnt ever want my house connected to the itnernet (save my PC)... The power company would be turning on/off my lights and heat as they see fit, chinese hackers would hack my freezer or my stove/oven either burn my house down, or cause all my meat to spoil.

As an industry IT professional, I am starting to believe the more disconnected you are from the technology, the better.

Wait, your company is a major part of emergency management and you don't have a backup generator? Or UPSs of some kind?

 

[zinfamous]

reads like an online focus group.

:hmm:

 

[Sheep]

Of course it'll re representative... the question is, representative of what?

Assuming the OP asked people here to take this survey, maybe hit up some other forums, solicited some friends and possibly some classmates, the results aren't representative of anything, period.

If his sole source of participants was this forum, you could make a leap that it's representative of tech geeks but even that would be pushing it since there's a lot of self-selection going on (what about tech geeks who don't frequent ATOT or post on message boards?). You couldn't even say it's representative of ATOT tech geeks unless you somehow managed to get a fairly large number of people completing whose demographics happened to look similar to that of the ATOT population at large.

However, this is a class project so no one expects his sample to be representative.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

You couldn't even say it's representative of ATOT tech geeks unless you somehow managed to get a fairly large number of people completing whose demographics happened to look similar to that of the ATOT population at large.

Even then demographics tell an unknown amount of the story. So even reflecting the population demographically won't give you information on how representative self-selection into the responses are.

Without knowing what the theory guiding the research question we are unable to know what needs to be controlled for.

 

[amdskip]

Done

 

[n0tdan]

Thanks for all the replies 🙂

1) survey monkey will give you people for $3 a pop
2) you should have gotten IRB approval before collecting data.

1) Didn't know that, but a class project probably wouldn't be worth paying 🙂 maybe in the future if random participants are required for worthy research.

2) That's one of the problems :/ we weren't thinking about it ahead of time so with the current deadlines we don't think we could have gotten IRB approval in time, BUT according to the IRB rules as long as this is for a class project and the results don't leave the classroom (can't publish the results...) no IRB approval is required. Clearly any future questionnaires will have IRB approval if the intent is to publish the results in some fashion. 🙂

This is part of the learning process 🙂 putting something out there and getting feedback in order to improve it for the next time.