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A short questionnaire on foraging for my dissertation
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Treacodactyl
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 13 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

woodland_wilf wrote:
Ty Gwyn wrote:
I have filled in a few surveys by students over the years,

But this is the first that has asked for confirmation,of education,marital status and income range,

What have these to do with the info you require for your dissertation?


the main reason for those questions is to compare foraging activity between people from different ways of life and those questions provide me with some different groups of people to compare
its just to give me more options for analysis when I get to that point having more information than I need now is better than finding I don't have the information if needed later

but thank you for your view


Do they need to be compulsory though? Some of the questions will put people off answering it so your results may not be what you think. For example, you may conclude people who's income is over £50k don't forage when actually they simple don't fill in your questionnaire as they don't want to answer your question.

You also seem to be missing a category for civil partnerships (add to married?) and I thought you need another for gender these days?

Green Rosie



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 13 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Done - I also agree that some of the questions about income should not be compulsory and you need to add widowed to the marital status.

woodland_wilf



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 13 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Treacodactyl wrote:
woodland_wilf wrote:
Ty Gwyn wrote:
I have filled in a few surveys by students over the years,

But this is the first that has asked for confirmation,of education,marital status and income range,

What have these to do with the info you require for your dissertation?


the main reason for those questions is to compare foraging activity between people from different ways of life and those questions provide me with some different groups of people to compare
its just to give me more options for analysis when I get to that point having more information than I need now is better than finding I don't have the information if needed later

but thank you for your view


Do they need to be compulsory though? Some of the questions will put people off answering it so your results may not be what you think. For example, you may conclude people who's income is over £50k don't forage when actually they simple don't fill in your questionnaire as they don't want to answer your question.

You also seem to be missing a category for civil partnerships (add to married?) and I thought you need another for gender these days?


thank you for this feedback will edit the form to remove them from being compulsory and add those options

jamanda
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 13 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You can't expect this lot just to fill in the darn questionaire! - they have to have an opinion on everything! But be careful - there's as many different opinions as there are Downsizers.

Hairyloon



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 13 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jamanda wrote:
there's as many different opinions as there are Downsizers.

No, I think there are more...

Treacodactyl
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 13 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jamanda wrote:
You can't expect this lot just to fill in the darn questionaire! - they have to have an opinion on everything! But be careful - there's as many different opinions as there are Downsizers.


Just being helpful, a valid response would be to say why they want to ask the questions or to say it's too late to make changes but they'll note comments for next time etc, etc. It's been a while since I did my course though.

For future reference Wilf , the text boxes could be bigger and have you thought about roots (I expect it's too late to make changes now)? Things like pig nuts, burdock, horseradish etc are often foraged for roots.

gil
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 13 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Done.

dpack



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 13 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

done

and hello

Mafro



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 13 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Completed, and good luck

robkb



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 13 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Done. Good luck with the dissertation.

Dabinett



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 13 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Done. Good luck.

lyndsayfink



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 13 2:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

hey there, I hope I wasn't too contrary when I filled it in but I found the 'suggestions' waaaaay to limited and not able to capture a true picture of my attitudes and practice.

Also, the section on knowledge was not helpful as I would have thought most people with do a bit of many (ie some things they will know, some things they will check in a book, some things they will ask a person who they know is more expert etc).


Sorry to be critical but I' like to help but really don't like having my thoughts pushed into boxes that don't cover it all.


(Also, is the male/female/transgender the appropriate categorisation? I would have thought that lumping trans*woman and trans*man into a kind of non-gender is not so great. Not being a survey writing person I know nothing of the conventions but it seems a bit clunky. It's worth remembering that a trans*woman is a woman and a trans*man is a man. Sorry for the aside question here but it was one of the things that struck me on going though, I don't fill in many surveys so getting the most from the experience! )

Mithril



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 13 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Done - good luck with it

woodland_wilf



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 19, 13 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

for those wanting to see the results of the questionnaire a spreadsheet containing the results can be found at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsyhexC9ff0hdEFSV3FXYnF4SDY0MGo0M1lHREhqcXc&usp=sharing

and once my dissertation has been completed, handed in and returned to me I will be happy to provide a link to it so that people browse it if they wish too

cheers again for all the responses

jamanda
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 19, 13 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thanks for that Wilf. I'll go and have a look! And I'd certainly be interested to see the final report.

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