Movie survey

[celticdragonfly]

jenna_thorn wrote:

Okay, so laforgery1, a buddy of mine, is going back to school. Ths particular semester, he's taking Business Statistical modeling, which is probably about as interesting as you would imagine, but the short form of the story is that he needs survey respondents to give him data to work with.

He's asking about summer blockbusters, why we go to movies, or more importantly, why we don't go to movies. He asked me to spread the word, to get more respondents and probably a wider spread of demographic responding.

I warned him that if half the folk on my flist answered his survey, and half of them linked and got a 50% response rate from there, we'd skew the heck out of his raw data, as we are educated, media-savvy, able to download, unimpressed by moronic scripts, and passionate about our fandoms. He said bring it on.

Well, no he didn't, he said he would welcome a flood of interest and response.

Let's see if we can't give him that, okay? Please take his survey and feel free to link to widen responses. I'd love to startle his prof with our sheer numbers.

I took the survey, it was pretty easy, although one question left me wondering WHAT he meant by it. Other than that it went smoothly and fairly quickly, though.

And I'm all for the idea of swamping him with results and skewing his data, bwahahaha. So let's help mess with it.

Comments

[jenna-thorn.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the crossposting. I'm rather hoping that we make his professor do a double take. He called yesterday and sounded a trifle concerned about having enough data to crunch. I wish I knew how many strangers-to-him had filled out his survey. 8-)

[tmc4242.livejournal.com]

Survey answered.

Let the skewing begin... :-)

[archangelbeth]

Muwhahah! Data has been duly messed with.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

I've done my bit to skew his results. :-D

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

I tried, but I get a message that says the survey is now closed. Hopefully that means he got enough people to fill it out.

[callibr8]

Too little, too late. Your post didn't go up until the same day as the survey closed, and I didn't see the post until after the survey had closed. Too bad he didn't say something sooner, when getting the word out would've done more good.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

It's important to get non-mainstream data out there. One thing I noticed in my class this summer is that the research results we were looking at didn't match my own experience of people I knew. I really want to do more research with fen as the data sample. :)