Survey Hybrid Cars in the USA

[pewd]

you posted the identical thing 2 weeks ago, no?
and haven't posted anything else except the survey...

let me guess, this survey wants my email address?

[Courtney]

Originally Posted by pewd

you posted the identical thing 2 weeks ago, no?
and haven't posted anything else except the survey...

let me guess, this survey wants my email address?

A good research student wouldn't jeopardize the results by email exploitation and thievery. If she has posted this twice, she may be trying to get more data. To create higher reliability as a researcher, you need high numbers. The higher the numbers, the more convincing the argument. A grad student myself, I appreciate what Katharina is doing and we should support her. The gift certificates are incentives to encourage participation. Many projects are so boring (and long), a grad student has to come up with funding to compensate the survey taker, but this survey is actually fun and the data may end up in a journal if she does good work! So I wouldn't worry too much if I were you!

[Godiva]

The e-mail is optional. You don't have to leave it.

[KayakerNC]

Maybe it's just me.
I don't do internet "surveys".

[orracle]

Tried the link twice and got:

Woops!
It looks like we've encountered an error. Sorry!

[pewd]

courtney, i'm not attacking researchers.

my point is, how do we know this really is a researcher?

[rr5skier]

Tried to help but couldn't access survey monkey using the link providid.

[chinalfr2]

Perhaps he/she need to pay? Here is the fee structure.

[Courtney]

Originally Posted by pewd

courtney, i'm not attacking researchers.

my point is, how do we know this really is a researcher?

I didn't mean to infer you were attacking researchers at all. Please forgive me?? Nobody likes leaving their email address, myself included. In fact, I have a junk box for just such an occasion! So I guess you really don't know if the person is the real thing or just out to spam you later. I took the survey - seemed legit and the email address is optional. Katharina hasn't responded to comments so I will assume she is busy collecting results right now

[Rybold]

Giving your email address was optional. I chose to take the survey, but I did not provide my email address. (btw, if I was going to provide an email address, I would have used my alias email address. Everyone that I know has one alias email that they can use for purposes like this - if you don't know if you are going to receive spam or not)

Nice survey. What other websites/areas are part of your focus group? Did you post a link to your survey on Youtube? If you haven't used Youtube in a while, I can inform you that you should be able to receive a lot of traffic from Youtube if you post a decent video. You don't even have to be in the video. Write on a piece of paper and film it for 30 seconds, along with some photos/magazine pictures of hybrid cars. You will get viewers/traffic. Good luck.
What is your major? What is your focus group? Just from Prius websites, or from many sources around the internet? Good luck.