please help me

[alamb]

I apologize if this message is off topic.

I am taking a college class that requires me to conduct online surveys under a professor’s supervision. As a result, I have created a short online survey on political decisions. The survey is short and should not take more than three or four minutes to complete. If any of you would be willing to participate in my survey, it would be greatly appreciated. I am not collecting any personal information, nor will you be spammed.

If you are willing to participate, please click the following link

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/jginges2/social_attitudes_survey

If you have any questions/comments about the survey, post them here, and I’ll respond to them.

Thank-you for you help,

Amanda Lamb

 

[bvibert]

I'm curious, what made you pick a Hiking and Skiing forum to ask for help?

 

[dmc]

I have created a short online survey on political decisions.

I almost spit my beer onto my keyboard after reading that for some reason... I think I'll wait until I have at least 3 beers before taking the survey..

 

[dmc]

I'm curious, what made you pick a Hiking and Skiing forum to ask for help?

Google.. the politcal stuff is all captured..

 

[alamb]

you know, I am not really sure

 

[bvibert]

I'm curious, what made you pick a Hiking and Skiing forum to ask for help?

Google.. the politcal stuff is all captured..

Thats what I figured, but I wanted to hear it from the 'horses' mouth so to speak.

A search of Google for "political discussions[/b] turns up one of our polls on the second page...

 

[bvibert]

you know, I am not really sure

I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything (I even took your survey) but you're telling me you just picked this site out of the blue?

 

[pizza]

you know, I am not really sure

I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything (I even took your survey) but you're telling me you just picked this site out of the blue?

It's useful to get our opinion.

"I'm a skier and I vote."

 

[riverc0il]

heh, interesting premise to the survey. i would be interested in seeing the results! i see two lines on a graph making a big X in my mind.

 

[Vortex]

Anyone want to guess how I feel about this?

 

[Stephen]

A diplomatic plan involving negotiations between the US and Country X to free the hostages.

That's pretty wide open. I mean, the obvious gist they are going for is a non-violent solution.

However, there is always some sort of "or else" factor to the negotiations. If not, then there is no teeth and thus no compelling reason for either side to adhere to the agreement. The U.S. does what it says "or else" the hostages are killed. The other country lets the hostages go "or else" some punishment is delivered.

Therefore, if the negotiations had a reasonable "or else" involvement then my support increases. If the negotiations are simply open our wallets and take what you want, oh, and if you would be so kind, it'd be jolly great if you could let the hostages go, I'd be less likely to support it.

This "poll" had an obivous slant in the way the question was asked. (But then again, they all do.)

-Stephen

 

[ctenidae]

I took the question to mean at the outset of the crisis. Might be interesting to run a series of questions, getting further along in the crisis, to see when people's original idea changes.

 

[alamb]

Actually, that would be really interesting, but I think most people would catch on.

 

[riverc0il]

my suspicion is that survey has less to do with politics and more to do with perception and attitudes. i thought it brilliant asking if you would be for or against action then asking what percentage of people would poll for or against. puts your measure of where your opinion stands in comparison to how you feel the rest of society sees things. looking for a correlation between your own opinion and how you view the rest of societies' opinions. i do not think it is not meant to be an accurate description of united states policy (the example in the survey would indeed be severely lacking in both details and a realistic situation), but perception of others in comparison to your own opinion.

perhaps a less "charged" topic for the survey would have been in order. but that seems more like a psychological survey than a political one to me in any case. i'd love to see the analysis and charts on that one, nice idea.