Hello world. My goal is to get as many surveys completed as possible because I need a LOT. I would greatly appreciate it if you could refer people to this thread.

Disclaimer: This survey is part of my Bachelors college course for Research Methods and Society I am taking. All respondents who fill out this survey will be kept anonymous. I greatly appreciate your time for those whom fill this out.

1. Are you male or female?
a. Male
b. Female

2. What age group do you fall under?
a. 10-20
b. 21-30
c. 31-40
d. 41+

3. What religion do you identify yourself as?
a. Christian
b. Catholic
c. Jewish
d. Muslim
e. Atheist
f. Other

4. How many days do you attend church on a weekly basis?
a. 0
b. 1
c. 2
d. 3+

5. How seriously do you practice your religion?
a. Not religious
b. Slight
c. Moderate
d. Very serious

6. What racial group do you identify yourself as?
a. Caucasian
b. African American
c. Native American
d. Multiracial
e. Other

7. Are you willing to work anytime with lots of Scientologists, Jews, Muslims, Catholics, Realists, and Atheists for a food packaging outreach event?
a. No
b. Yes

You need to give us greater background on what this research is about, it's aims and it's goals.

Protip from a PhD researcher who specialises in primary ethnographical research methodologies; you need to ensure your methodology, and your questions in your questionnaire are watertight.

For example, in all but very rare cases (closet atheists), people who identify as atheist are unlikely to visit a church. Also, nobody but Christians attend a church. Hindus go to temple, Sikhs to a gurdwara, Muslims to mosque and so on. This effectively makes many of the paths of the questionnaire redundant.

Also, this is a multi-nation forum. Not everyone is from the US, which highlights again the need for greater clarity on the aims.

(May 25, 2013 at 4:35 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: You need to give us greater background on what this research is about, it's aims and it's goals.

Protip from a PhD researcher who specialises in primary ethnographical research methodologies; you need to ensure your methodology, and your questions in your questionnaire are watertight.

For example, in all but very rare cases (closet atheists), people who identify as atheist are unlikely to visit a church. Also, nobody but Christians attend a church. Hindus go to temple, Sikhs to a gurdwara, Muslims to mosque and so on. This effectively makes many of the paths of the questionnaire redundant.

Also, this is a multi-nation forum. Not everyone is from the US, which highlights again the need for greater clarity on the aims.

Question 4 also has an answer of 0 to answer your example you made.

This survey is made the way it is for a reason, but to reveal that reason will have too much of an influence on whomever fills it out; it will defeat the purpose of the survey.

Further clarification in the aims of this survey is detrimental in this case and I appreciate all whom fill it out. Thank you.

(May 25, 2013 at 5:05 pm)Sandu Cortez Wrote:

(May 25, 2013 at 4:35 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: You need to give us greater background on what this research is about, it's aims and it's goals.

Protip from a PhD researcher who specialises in primary ethnographical research methodologies; you need to ensure your methodology, and your questions in your questionnaire are watertight.

For example, in all but very rare cases (closet atheists), people who identify as atheist are unlikely to visit a church. Also, nobody but Christians attend a church. Hindus go to temple, Sikhs to a gurdwara, Muslims to mosque and so on. This effectively makes many of the paths of the questionnaire redundant.

Also, this is a multi-nation forum. Not everyone is from the US, which highlights again the need for greater clarity on the aims.

Question 4 also has an answer of 0 to answer your example you made.

This survey is made the way it is for a reason, but to reveal that reason will have too much of an influence on whomever fills it out; it will defeat the purpose of the survey.

Further clarification in the aims of this survey is detrimental in this case and I appreciate all whom fill it out. Thank you.

How could clarifying the aims of the survey be detrimental to the survey, unless there is an ulterior motive? You don't have to reveal the conclusions of the research beforeits been conducted, but you do have to ensure that respondents know what they're contributing to, otherwise you've got serious ethical flaws that won't pass any ethical review board worth their pay packet.

The only real leading question not designed to elicit backgrounds of the respondents is the final one on the food packaging outreach event, thus I'd have to say that's what the entire thing is about.

Sorry, I won't be answering becuase I have no idea what the research is aiming to achieve. Good luck with your research.

If you want to get a lot of people to take a survey like that, you're best off going to Amazon Mechanical Turk, paying a couple of bucks, offering a reward of 25-50 cents for completion. I guarantee you that you'll have what you need within a day, as long as you reward generously. University students run research surveys on there all the time.

I would take your survey if you disclose your aims.

This is the most bizarrely designed questionnaire I've seen in a while. While it would not be uncommon for an undergraduate class in research methods to require the student to design a survey questionnaire, actually administering the questionnaire and collating the results would serve no actual purpose in teaching about the methods. Moreover, such work is generally not required at the undergraduate level. That and the incompetent design, which indicates that it likely hasn't been approved for use by anyone who actually understands questionnaire design, suggests that this is not any class assignment. These factors and more suggest that the story you have given us is bullshit.

Sandu unit, why do you not disclose information?

It is illogical to withhold required information.

The 4th question is bizarre...you don't expect anyone other than a Christian to attend Church on a weekly basis surely.

(May 25, 2013 at 3:57 pm)Sandu Cortez Wrote: All respondents who fill out this survey will be kept anonymous.

I'm not exactly afraid of you citing "CleanShavenJesus from an internet forum" as a participant in this survey.

Do you actually know lots of Scientologists?