Need Research Help!

[socialpsychprof]

My research needs participants, especially male participants. The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete. First there are some basic demographic questions, and then a story with follow up questions about how you think the individual in the story would act. Finally, there are three brief questionnaires about your personal experiences.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7rlmV6mDmEVHOGb4H1kZ0g_3d_3d

Any help is appreciated as this research is a follow up to my dissertation!

[lewin]

May I suggest that you're having trouble recruiting participants because volunteering 30-45 minutes is a lot to ask of people? (The estimated time listed on your ICL.)

I also receive these types of invitations on the professional social psychology listserv--a half-hour survey with no remuneration. Even a draw for a couple of $50 amazon gift certificates would be better than nothing.... and a cheap too, for 250 participants.

All that being said, I did the survey. I thought it was the least I could do after giving you a hard time

[sonofcioran]

I can commiserate. I begged a prof to let me survey his class.

Quick things:

1) It's too long.

2) Use college students and scantrons

3) label all Likert options - you only label the extremes. People will forget 3 = Neutral. Except there are 6 options? And 4 in another place? Kind of odd. Inconsistent, too. It makes correlating the various sections tougher for you, too when you plug and chug with SPSS or Excel.

4) Your directions are poor

5) I forgot the story the questions referred too by the time I finished. It's easier if you hand out a sheet with the story and a survey as a separate sheet or use separate prompts for each question

6) Use an f-scale or something - it's extremely easy to tick off the same answer for everything.

7) Are you measuring attitudes with the personal experiences part?

8. Ditto on the drawing, except for introducing SES skew. Not that it matters, since posting on here will introduce educational attainment skew.

Oh, and yes, I took it too, of course. Grad student solidarity.