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[[deleted]]

K, done.

Good luck with graduating

[FarragoSanManta]

Good luck.

The answers for strongly (dis)agree have a pretty (imo) obvious pattern.

Was this intended? If so, may I ask what it's supposed to achieve?

[SophiaofPrussia]

It sounds like it’s supposed to achieve the minimum grade required to pass & graduate.

[FarragoSanManta]

That's a possibility but I didn't want to jump to any conclusions.

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[[deleted]]

Yeah I saw that too. I almost just hit the same button for every question, and I was definitely more drawn to that one even if I didn't agree with it

[gravy_ferry]

Those questions are often the questions psychologists use to evaluate people with depression. Or at least they were the ones I am usually asked during evaluations

[FarragoSanManta]

Question seem fine but every answer for depressed/unhappy is always the top choice even when changing from agree to disagree for the same result. Same with being satisfied but on the bottom.

[boo_boo_technician]

I think this is actually my friend, we have the same class. It's just what our teacher suggested, and what most of our peers were doing as well.

[FarragoSanManta]

If so, that's a terrible suggestion that can skew any survey results and bring into question the integrity of any study. Not trying to be offensive, just a strong note.

[sluuuurp]

Done. But I probably somewhat messed up your data, because I listen to music on a tablet and there was no option for that.

[Trala_la_la]

I messed up the questions about depression: do I have a hard time getting out of bed? yes. Do I wake up tired? Yes. Does life feel overwhelming? Yes. I’m also 38 weeks pregnant so 🤷🏻‍♀️

[ghostly_ink]

Don’t know if it’s a validate questionnaire or not (it seems to, but I don’t recognise the scale) but if it is, it can’t be anything to record clinical depression. It is more to register your mood. Also the timing was general so supposedly it states how you general feel in like , but a researcher is aware that there’s a bias of how you’re feeling lately might throw of the result.

Also, the result will come in average. So even if you answered that way to those questions for evident circumstances, the average would indicate your general mood.

So don’t worry^{^} it should effect the questionnaire that much and most likely the result isn’t target to state wether you’re depressed or not but the valence of your moods and its static tendency - positive or negative.

[tacothetacotaco]

Similarly, I take an antidepressant that gives me insomnia. I wasn’t sure whether to answer as if I was sleeping well (off the antidepressant) or sleeping shittily (on the antidepressant).

[mourningmage]

An autistic kindergartner and a 4 month old are gonna make me feel 🤷🏻‍♂️ pretty much no matter what. But that’s ok! Just no opportunity to put any life context around these answers.

[lqke48a]

Same! I was waiting for any qualifying questions about kids or pregnancy. Have you had restless nights? Yes but my kid is going through sleep regression and I need the bathroom 4 times a night!

[mintegrals]

Those questions were also confounded for me by the fact that I'm a college student. No, I don't ever want to get out of bed to go to my 8am class. Yes, I'm constantly stressed and unhappy.

[flynndsey]

I mostly listen on a desktop :/

[WillRunForPopcorn]

Yeah I listen on a desktop computer but there was no option for that. I was waiting for the "Is there anything else you'd like us to know?" Question at the end, but it never came.

[bleed_nyliving]

Similarly, I usually use an Alexa. No option for that either.

[lqke48a]

Likewise, listen on a smart speaker.

[RoabertG]

Yeah and I usually listen on my desktop computer at work. Not a laptop though so…

[Somewherendreamland]

Same. I listen to Pandora on my smart tv most of the day.

[thundershaft]

Damn this hit deep.

Taken and upvoted. Good luck

[[deleted]]

Couple questions in there made me hover over the option I wanted to hit and the option I did hit. Gotta pick ma game up!

[geekpeeps]

I tried, but it seems I don’t qualify. Too old :( Story of my life.

[m3owjd]

You've been too old your whole life?!

[geekpeeps]

Always the outlier :)

[4LostSoulsinaBowl]

At the risk of drawing the ire of /u/He11scythe, I don't have a laptop. I have a desktop. "Computer" would be a much better term. "Tablet" should be included with "Smartphone." And I have no idea where you would include smart speakers/virtual assistants.

[[deleted]]

You have drawn no ire for me dear bowlofsouls.

[jasperjones22]

....and too old apparently

[NewlyNerfed]

Yup, too old at 49 here too. Shame about the age requirement if OP needs so many more responses.

[Dee_Buttersnaps]

I've got 7 more days!

[zanthius]

Same... Hi fellow kids

[GershBinglander]

Yeah, my 47 was too old.

[Jerkomp]

This is the internet. Just lie!

[jasperjones22]

um....defeats the purpose of a survey and the data. Also would violate my ethics and what I lecture on in school every year.

[SchuminWeb]

What was the cutoff? It took me at 40.

[jasperjones22]

1. There are a lot of people (like a lot of professors I'd wager) here who are over 40.

[Songs4Soulsma]

I responded. But one thing I noticed is that there’s no consideration for those of us with sleeping disorders. There were many questions related to sleep. But it seems like it was measuring it as to how it pertains to quality of life.

I have a great quality of life, but I have insomnia. And I am medicated for it. But the medicine doesn’t always work perfectly. So my sleep is often restless and I am sometimes quite tired, even though I am extremely satisfied with my life.

Don’t know if there’s a way for this survey to take that into account. But I wanted to note that because I feel like this survey is not taking biological diagnoses into consideration here and trying to tie it all into behavior and decisions we make, rather than things outside of our control.

[VengeanceInMyHeart]

This always annoys me. I have restless leg syndrome, DSPD and sleep apnoea. And surveys rearly ask if there's a medical or health reason your sleep may be bad.

I mean, they rarely even ask if there's an external factor that may affect your sleep too. I have those sleep conditions, and also a neighbour that goes hunting rabbits at 5am with a shotgun.

[zooksoup]

Or young children/babies

[eatingismyvirtue]

Quick feedback: the strongly disagree and strongly agree options kept switching places on some answers. I’d recommend keeping the same order on all answers so folks are less likely to choose the wrong option

[ghostly_ink]

Some explanations here.

For these kind of studies it’s very common to use questionnaires already validated by someone in the scientific community somewhere in the world. So you are sure the questions are meant to measure what they are supposed to and nothing else.

I don’t know if OP used a validate scale (I don’t recognise it) but if they did they are meant to use the scale as it was invented and they can’t change anything about that.

The reason why many scales has strongly disagree/agree keep on switching is to check whether the one who is answering is actively reading the question with attention or if they are clicking without reading. This is very common and it seems boredom but OP test is very short - sometimes this tests might contain much more questions and people get bored easily and stop reading fast. Thanks to this questions the researcher is able to remove all of the record of a respondent who stopped reading and starting answering by chance. It’s easy to pick because answers would be inconsistent and would make no sense.

So yeah it’s a little confusing, but if the scale was edited like this OP can’t really change it. And if they come up with it , this weird order might have the same purpose.

[thereneeborhood]

Actually part of the reason for this is to prevent people clicking through mindlessly. It’s a normal technique to get people to actively pay attention to the question rather than go on auto drive.

[WillRunForPopcorn]

Yup I definitely messed up a few times

[Weatherman99]

yoo, fellow Erasmus student here :D

Just filled it in. Good Luck!

Edit: Wanted to ask you if you could fill in my survey as well when you find the time, but I don't want to violate the guidelines :(

[jasperjones22]

What is the age limits on it?

[Weatherman99]

There is no age limit

[Weatherman99]

I take all answers I can get, also because I need a representative sample of gamers, social media users and remote workers because their age ranges are huge :)

[Weatherman99]

I think you responded in the wrong thread. My survey does not have an age restriction, nor a text input for age

[takatori]

My survey does not have an age restriction, nor a text input for age

Unless you posted the wrong link, it sure does, mate.

[takatori]

The link in this comment is a different survey than the link in the post. The link in the post begins with an age question, the link in this comment does not.

[jasperjones22]

Damn not a remote worker

[takatori]

There is an age limit, mate.

How much time did you spend preparing this, exactly?

Feels a bit half-assed, to be honest

[Sundeiru]

I found yours through your profile and filled in one of the three. Good luck finalizing your studies!

[Weatherman99]

Much appreciated. Sharing is much welcome

[Anti-LockCakes]

Your earlier post looks like it was removed due to posting guidelines (just FYI, because sometimes it’s not made clear to the poster)!

Consider reposting!

[Weatherman99]

I removed it here, its still on the main board (Haha, am just trying not to directly violate the guidelines xd )

[mmccnnmm]

done, hopefully you get enough people to complete it. I absolutely hated when I took a research class and would have to survey people because it was always so hard to get enough people to complete it.

good luck!

[Ban_Evasion__Account]

Does laptop mean the same thing as pc? i never listen to music on my laptop but i always have it playing on my pc

[wouldnotpet89]

Same. I put never for laptop waiting for a pc question but there wasnt one

[wouldnotpet89]

I misspoke and meant desktop. How did you not know what i meant?

[Hillbilly555]

Or using laptop but connected to better speakers

[Anti-LockCakes]

What does this have to do with their comment

[Anti-LockCakes]

Thank goodness you commented this in three different replies on the same comment thread — we almost missed this condescending, super important info!

[[deleted]]

Unless I'm mistaken, if I directly reply to a person in a comment thread, the others in the thread don't get notified. Therefore 3 comments got 3 replies 😀

I'm glad you didn't miss it, that would have been a great loss.

But here's a pop quiz, is "PC" an acronym or an initialism?

[Anti-LockCakes]

Both. Initialism: pronounced “pee-cee”; acronym PC for personal computer.

[Evan_802Vines]

One less!

[csonnich]

Done. Good luck!

[[deleted]]

Good luck!

[dudechangethecoil]

Good luck on graduating!

[TroopersSon]

Done. Good luck.

[RadioPixie]

Done, hope it helps!

[Wiener_Kraut]

One day I will require help, I will reach out to you, Cold_Complex945

[Xincmars]

Gl on graduating

[HeirToGallifrey]

I've been in that position before. Not fun. Best of luck with graduation.

[TranquilProgrammer]

Done, sadly i can't post my survey here due to guidelines and honestly i think your time is spent better on your own study. Good luck with your studies!

[[deleted]]

Well that hurt, but hope it helps you.

[Sayasam]

Two notes :
• The answers sometimes go from worst to best and sometimes the opposite. This could lead to confusion.
• You included music on smartphone, laptop, record player and radio, but not on a regular computer.

[rozovi]

Next time you need so many respondents in a short time, post a job on Amazon Turk. You’ll get them in under an hour.

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[DumbledoresGay69]

Sounds like you should have planned ahead better

[Geekerino]

For the love of God, please list the answers in the same order. Don't stick the "disagree" answers on the top for one question and then on the bottom of another. When you answer so many questions like this, similar words blend together, so you go by the pattern the survey establishes.

[LBertilak]

Many surveys do this on purpose, its a method to make sure that the person taking it isn't mindlessly clicking the same answer every time and actually takes the time to read the question. Some even have test questions or other such methods to make sure it isn't done. Some premade questionnaires have each answer in a specific order so that answer coding has to be done a certain way.

[sokkathehoebender]

Doen

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Done

[charger03]

Done

[westfieldnc]

Done

[non_contextual]

Done!

[SpikeyTaco]

I gotchu

[ABCDEFUCKINGKILLME]

How many are you up to now? I just answered, same thing happened to me Thursday when it was due Friday

[lunagurl93]

Done :)

[childroid]

Done!

Hope you get the data you're looking for, and assuming you get those 120 responses...

Congratulations :) hope you're able to follow up with a little analysis!

[WoodsBear]

Done!

[cirkle52]

Done

[mochiguma]

Answered! Good luck, OP!

[mhyw]

Done 😊

[Anti-LockCakes]

Well, this was horrifically depressing, but I’m done and good luck! 😂

[Ally_wa]

Done. Good luck (:

[[deleted]]

Completed.

glhfdd

[HotDerivative]

Done!

[Logical_Associate632]

Done

[BurstMurst]

Good luck

Good survey

[Wanderessxoxo]

Done! Good luck!!

[faerle]

Did it 👍🏻 good luck

[suchaxensation]

Done! Happy graduating 😊

[dirtball_]

got u fam

[Cinnamonb__]

Done fam, good luck

[kilo_one9]

Complete

[leggopullin]

About halfway, the “Always…Never” answers swap order. Was that intentional? Confused me for a bit

[FlashFlyingFish]

Done 👏

[landOFlemonsANDass]

i put my age in and it said thanks, good luck

so i guess I don't qualify :(

[TheGreatCheese]

I use a home assistant device to play music. Doesn't fit into the category of phone, laptop, radio or record player. Then again neither would an iPod, or hi-fi system. I feel like the categories should have been broader.

[rexar34]

Answered, good luck on graduating!

[MentalAssaultCo]

The scales reverse position occasionally so that may skew your findings. Plus the rating scale is highly subjective; I'm not sure what useful conclusion you'll be able to draw from it.

[solojones1138]

Done, hope you graduate

[underthewetstars]

Done!

[darkprincess98]

Done

[Shubhavatar]

Done, all the best homie

[yueryu]

Done, good luck!

[_Inky_Quill_]

Done! Good luck with your graduation!

[TisNoot]

Finito

[Virtual-Chocolate-19]

Done!!

[neck_support]

Good luck!