Anyone bored and want to take a survey for my daughter?

2 years ago

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My college sophomore daughter is taking a summer psychology class where she has to create a survey, collect data, and analyze it. Her survey is about complaince with COVID-19 recommended behaviors (e.g. wearing masks, social distancing, and staying at home). She needs a really vast swath of responses from as many areas of the country/world as possible (because different areas have different approaches to COVID behaviors), so if you guys wouldn't mind spending like 5 minutes to take it, she would really appreciate it. Also, if you think the project is interesting and you wouldn't mind, please feel free to share it to others because she needs as many responses as possible. Thanks so much!!!

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terezosa / terriks

2 years ago

I completed the survey, but found some questions hard to answer. I strongly support the wearing of masks when out in public/in commercial places, but I don't wear a mask every time I leave my house because most of the time when I'm doing something outside my home I am out walking, and I'm not near other people. So I think that my answers may skew away from mask wearing, because of the way that the questions are written.

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oberon476
2 years ago
i think it sounds very interesting
Lala
2 years ago
Be sure to share the results.
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gail618
2 years ago
Done!
Fun2BHere
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Done.
jmck_nc
2 years ago
done...agree with terriks about the questions
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Olychick
2 years ago
It will be interesting to see results, if we ever do. I am a strong believer in science, but don't believe it knows everything about everything, so I suppose my answers were very contradictory...maybe everyone's are like that.
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gsciencechick
2 years ago
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Thanks! Their purpose is to learn, so they are gaining experience in drafting the questions and analyzing the responses. Survey questions are somewhat easy to work with, but you only get exactly what you ask, so it can be hard to interpret likert type of data. And questions can mean different things to different people.
lkplatow
Original Author
2 years ago
Yes I agree about the questions. The science ones came from a pre-validated standard set that her professor gave her - I pretty much hated the wording of most of those but that is what her prof told her to use. She wrote the covid questions since there wasn't a pre-existing set. The point about the mask question is also well taken (and I do the same thing - wear one when I'm around people, but not if I'm going for a walk on a trail by myself) but I don't think she can change the wording now that people have started answering without invalidating the whole thing. I think I answered Always/Almost Always figuring the intent was whether you were complying with mask wearing guidelines and I'm following the guidelines. But answer as best you can. And thanks so much!!!!
cran
2 years ago
Done
1929Spanish-GW
2 years ago
done.
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2 years ago
It will be interesting to see results, if we ever do. I am a strong believer in science, but don't believe it knows everything about everything, so I suppose my answers were very contradictory...maybe everyone's are like that.

I had the same problem with the science questions.
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Done. I hope I win the big prize!!
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Same here with the science questions. I have a solid belief in science, and yet... My beliefs and knowledge are often based on the experience of something else altogether.
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Done. Agree with others in the science questions.
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2 years ago
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The interesting thing about science is in the case of covid and most things that affect the human body the facts are not evident right away...think how what SCIENCE told us about this and what they say NOW...we are still learning. Science in process is not correct every time!! Add to that the fact that philosophy tells us much about humans. Faith teaches much about how and why we were created. I am curious as to how the confidence in science questions matter for the covid questions?!! I go shopping which is allowed but no way is it possible to ALWAYS be 6ft from other people. At work we speak to each other, going for walks we speak to each other...the survey has very large holes IMHO--which these young ladies will figure out through the collating of their data..And just has a point of FACT the questions about age/gender/ethnicity...GENDER is a SCIENTIFIC FACT--there are only TWO. Either you go with SCIENCE or you don't..just sayin.
amj0517
2 years ago
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2 years ago
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2 years ago
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Bestyears
2 years ago
Done, and yes, best of luck to your daughter.
dedtired
2 years ago
Done. Agree that the mask question stymied me. I put my mask on before going to the store, while I’m in the car, not every time I leave the house. Very thought provoking and I hope we hear the results.
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2 years ago
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Done!
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2 years ago
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2 years ago
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2 years ago
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4kids4us
2 years ago
The mask question had me a bit unsure how to answer. in my state we are required to wear a mask indoors at places like retail establishments, etc. I wear them 100% of the time in those situations, and would even if not required. However, I dont wear a mask every time I leave the house - I don't wear one in my car, or when I go out for a walk (no need, dont cross paths w/in 10’ of anyone) , or when I’m outside doing yard work or paddle boarding on the bay, etc. I answered “sometimes” as that fit best, but think the question could have been more specific.
OutsidePlaying
2 years ago
Done.
nutsaboutplants
2 years ago
Done!
amykath
2 years ago
Done. I would love to hear the results of her findings.
Springroz
2 years ago
Done! Hopefully, I got a good grade!!
robo (z6a)
2 years ago
I think the science set of questions is interesting because it would be really hard to 100% agree with all The answers, but that means the set discriminates well between someone like me who is very pro science and, like, science fanatics, so it will give a nice curve .
lkplatow
Original Author
2 years ago
Thank you everyone! I agree that some of the questions are weird. Some of them weren't her doing - the professor suggested they use prevalidated question sets where possible, so the science related questions came from an official survey question set used by other researchers. I thought those questions in particular were weird and had a hard time answering them. The mask question - I agree it could be worded better, I think she probably meant when you were going to be around people not if you were just in your car or out in your own yard or whatever. But she can't change the wording now without invalidating all the responses so people will just have to answer how they see fit. I guess if she were an official survey writer, they would pilot the survey on a test group first to get feedback like that, but because it's a class, I guess this is part of the learning experience. Anyhow, thanks again for taking the time to help her -- as of last night she had over 300 responses which is awesome!
OutsidePlaying
2 years ago
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As an engineer, I’ll just say I thought the science-related questions were weird, especially after the first one or two, and could/should have been eliminated. I am also of the opinion there other explanations and rationales for things besides pure science. I get the prevalidation, but these were an odd way to introduce questions about masks.

If they were trying to get an idea of demographics, why wasn't there a question about the state the respondents were from? Maybe I misunderstood and that wasn’t part of it.
tannatonk23_fl_z9a
2 years ago
Done. I would also like to see the results once this is completed. Thanks!
Irish2
2 years ago
Done!
bbstx
2 years ago
Done. My only comment is the introductory material was too long. I may have read half of it. Hope the other half wasn’t important. :-)
prepmom
2 years ago
Done. Happy to help!
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2 years ago
Done.
Moxie
2 years ago
It would have been good to have ask if the local order was silent about masks, recommended them or required them. It's hard to structure questions about masks because there are so many variables that affect mask wearing for people who committed to doing so. Ex. House with yard vs flat that opens to hallway; use own car vs bicycle vs public transportation to get to store, etc.
Oakley
2 years ago
I took it last night and since I love to look at college towns, I took a peek on google maps. The perfect college town, classic. OK has one similar to Oxford, sitting in the meadows all by itself. Beautiful!

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