lolgaxe wrote:
Nexa wrote:
The restriction to once ever x days and the restriction that one must be a member or donate to charity is putting a barrier to someone collecting data for education purposes...possibly the best data for their project and forcing them to get less relevant data where they are able to....that how we get sh*tty survey results and studies that come out saying that all gamers are furries because the only forum that let them gather data was a furry forum...know what I mean?
Probably shouldn't be doing their homework online, then. Just the very fact that a lot of people are going to give sh
it answers just to fu
ck with the survey should be obvious enough. I can't imagine most of these surveys being done by anyone out of high school, if only for the reason that I can't imagine any school would take online surveys serious.
Many survey courses allow for online surveys...especially when you're attempting to gather data from an online population (for example, players of online video games). You're not going to get much of a sample if you're just snowballing from people you know. Additionally, most survey courses are teaching HOW to conduct a survey without much real attention to the results. They want to see that you can gather and analyze data (preferably very large amounts) and draw conclusions from that data while identifying the limitations of your sample and your research method. Nevertheless, it's nice if the data is at least gathered from a somewhat appropriate sample.
Colleges utilizing online surveys include Harvard, MIT, etc, etc...it's a brave new world out here...
Nexa