Questionnaire...

[glasgow-chick]

The other thing to remember is that you don't actually have to do all the actual research, you can just make some of it up

Thats what I like to hear. Any 'tips' on going about this? Is'nt as easy as I first thought

You can take questions from existing studies, as long as you don't copy the whole study, and give references to where the Qs came from.

 

[glasgow-chick]

I've done quite alot of data entry and you definitely want to keep it all very simple because it can take you a long time to enter it! Need any help with data entry into SPSS just pm me.

Thanks

Probably will need help with it, as I've not used it much before. Should be finished the firs draft of the questionnaire either tonight or tomorrow. Can I email it to you then?

No problem, will pm you my email.

 

[Barbie]

Thats what I like to hear. Any 'tips' on going about this? Is'nt as easy as I first thought

Fergie for my dissertation I 'did':

sample of 600+ questionnaires of 16-25 year olds
in-depth questionnaires with police officers, probation officers, youth court service team leader, solicitors, judges
self-report surveys on primary and seconday school children
interviews with teachers and headmasters

Now do you think I honestly did all that

I knew what I wanted the results of my dissertation to be so I made sure the results I got proved that

Work backwards if you get my drift

 

[fergie19]

cheers for the help everyone

 

[djchewie]

Currently making up a questionnaire survey for my dissertation. However, after reading about 100 pages on methods etc, it appears there's more to them than I had previously expected

Anyone here got any experience in this field?

i did my dissertation 2days before it was handed in... got a desmond (tutu) for it, so cant gripe...

 

[fergie19]

Babs

Yeah my plan was to 'ellaborate' on the truth a bit

How did you present the data you 'got' from all those folk though? Easier to make up a questionnaire study

 

[Barbie]

Babs

Yeah my plan was to 'ellaborate' on the truth a bit

How did you present the data you 'got' from all those folk though? Easier to make up a questionnaire study

'Ellaborate' is a good word say if you do x number of questionnaires, then make up the data for x x10, that way it looks like you've done lots of work

I just put my made up data into spreadsheet same way as my other data.

No-one ever questionned me on it and somehow I got a first on it

 

[fergie19]

Nice one

So do you think doing 50 questionnairs then x10 would be suficient? Speaking hypothetically of course

You see for your qualitative data from 'police officers' etc , how do you put that sort of info into a spreadsheet?

 

[Barbie]

Nice one

So do you think doing 50 questionnairs then x10 would be suficient? Speaking hypothetically of course

You see for your qualitative data from 'police officers' etc , how do you put that sort of info into a spreadsheet?

Hypothetically speaking, 500 would be a large enough number to make some very good assumptions from

Oh yes the police men I didn't put that into spreadsheet cos it was quant and just put copies of my 'interviews' in the appendices and then referred to them in the main body of my disseration, and used them as evidence to support my main 'findings'

 

[fergie19]

So...lets say I did this...

... Conducted my questionnaire study, then x10
... 'make up' say 3 or 4 interviews with relevant people, transcribe them, then put them in the appendices
...then from both sets of data, coupled with previously found secondary and tertiery data, the findings could be triangulated in order to verify my findings?

 

[Barbie]

So...lets say I did this...

... Conducted my questionnaire study, then x10
... 'make up' say 3 or 4 interviews with relevant people, transcribe them, then put them in the appendices
...then from both sets of data, coupled with previously found secondary and tertiery data, the findings could be triangulated in order to verify my findings?

I like your train of thought

If you actually want to do any 'interviews' I can give you the name of the main .com man at Tesco, he was my first boss there and he's really nice if you wanted to e-mail him any questions (you can say you know me, just don't say from an internet message board )

 

[fergie19]

like your train of thought

If you actually want to do any 'interviews' I can give you the name of the main .com man at Tesco, he was my first boss there and he's really nice if you wanted to e-mail him any questions (you can say you know me, just don't say from an internet message board )

Yeah that would be really good, could you PM me some details please?

Should I mention to him that we first met in person in a state of in a place called Space in Ibiza?

 

[Barbie]

Should I mention to him that we first met in person in a state of in a place called Space in Ibiza?

He'd just think 'oh dear, Sarah hasn't changed since she used to work for me'

PM sent

 

[fergie19]

Cheers

 

[Buckley]

The other thing to remember is that you don't actually have to do all the actual research, you can just make some of it up

Accrington Stanley!

And the great thing about making data up is you can decide on conclusion you can wax lyrical about best and create your data to suit.

I'm slightly shocked you actually considered collecting the data properly - what kind of student are you

 

[fergie19]

Don't worry mate, my intentions were always of a sly devious nature

 

[nish]

blag it mate

 

[fergie19]

Will try my best dude