Master Dissertation on Hybrids from London

[Bradlee]

Hello MiHG members and friends,

A MiHG friend of ours in London, Julia – Caroline Schmidt, has ask if we could help her to get information for her Master Dissertation for the London School of Economics on “The Public Perception of Hybrid Vehicles.”

I will be sending this request out to all our members and friends and will post on various sites as well. I’ve included a short statement from Julia as well as her link below. If we could assist her in answering her questionnaire and email it back to her by July 25, 2007, we would be doing a great service for Julia and the hybrid movement.

Since we’re all in this together, I would appreciate your consideration in helping Julia out.

Bradlee Fons
Milwaukeehybridgroup.com


As part of a Master programme in International Management at the London School of Economics a project on "The Public's Perception of Hybrid Electric Vehicles" is currently being carried out on a world wide basis. The aim is to get a better insight about how the general public, hybrid vehicle owners as well as non owners feel about topics such as the environment, innovations and automobiles in general. For this reason a questionnaire of multiple choice questions has been compiled.

Thank you very much for your time and support in answering the questions from the link below,

Julia - Caroline Schmidt

http://psych2.lse.ac.uk/hybrid

[Bill Merchant]

The questionnaire is somewhat flawed. It presumes we all live in cities, towns, or villages; I live in the country, rural! Question 32 presumes you do not own a hybrid, but you must answer the question nonsensically if you do own one.

[Godiva]

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The questionnaire is somewhat flawed. It presumes we all live in cities, towns, or villages; I live in the country, rural! Question 32 presumes you do not own a hybrid, but you must answer the question nonsensically if you do own one.
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I agree. Some of the other questions about my perceptions of cars and hybrids also made no sense since I already owned one.

It really needed two sections beginning with do you own a hybrid car? If so...skip to part II. If not....do part I. Or something like that. And a check to see that you didn't answer both and didn't have to answer what wasn't needed. This is probably the fault of using a simple online survery generator as opposed to a paper survey.

[tripp]

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I agree. Some of the other questions about my perceptions of cars and hybrids also made no sense since I already owned one.

It really needed two sections beginning with do you own a hybrid car? If so...skip to part II. If not....do part I. Or something like that. And a check to see that you didn't answer both and didn't have to answer what wasn't needed. This is probably the fault of using a simple online survery generator as opposed to a paper survey.
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Actually, it wouldn't be very hard to do what you asked, but it would be custom. A survey this should would take about 4-8 hours to code from scratch, more if you wanted to make it look pretty and have a more complicated work flow.

For 32 I just put neither agree nor disagree as it was the best choice.

[catgic]

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[Bill Merchant]

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The survey's "cities, towns, or villages" versus your "I live in the country, rural" is an American English versus British English vocabulary common usage thing. I believe their "village" option would equate to your "country, rural" location[/b]

I disagree. There is no village here. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48,

In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to have a parish church. A village has a church, but no market. A town has both a market and a church or churches. A city is, in the legal sense, an incorporated borough town, which is, or has been, the place of a bishop's see. In the United States these distinctions do not hold. [1913 Webster][/b]

The salient point is that a village is a collection of dwellings. When there is no collection of dwellings, I consider it "in the country, rural."

[catgic]

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[Bill Merchant]

I PMd you, catgic. Yes, I can drive to the store, gas station, etc., but I don't live near them. They are several miles from my house. My objection to the survey is its point of view that all people live in urban environments. I don't.

[catgic]

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