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Dissertation Survey: Update (or why so many partial responses?)
Research Methods, Dissertation 2696 viewsI'm interested to know why so many (80%) of the responses to my dissertation survey (survey details from this post) have not been completed.
The pattern seems to be that:
- People look at it and then decide it's not for them at all - I wonder why they looked in the first place?
- People do the easy (multi-choice) questions, but not the text-based ones (which are the ones that will be most useful) - I wonder whether it's taking over the 15 minutes I said it would?
- People complete the survey, but don't send in their OPML file. I wonder if that's because of privacy concerns or through not knowing how to get it?
If you have not yet completed the survey, please could I encourage you to do so - and to mention it on your blog or in your social network group. I am hoping that the results will be useful to anyone who is looking to see how to use blogs and RSS to promote large-scale communities of practice.
Thanks in advance.
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I would have completed the survey - but I saw it was out-of-date (by three months or so…). If you are still collecting data, I will happily fill in the survey (feel free to email me).
I rarely fill in the open ended boxes of surveys. I think this is just laziness on my part.
Good luck for your MA.
Thanks Patrick. Yes - I’m hopefully going to be pulling the results together in the next month.
