Short summary of geoblog survey results
Lutz has posted a short summary of last fall's geoblog survey results on his blog. It's in English: I'll be chewing on some of this same data in my presentation in two months at the NE/SE GSA meeting in Baltimore.
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I didn't see anything about the total number of responses (though I was skimming while multitasking). Were there ~130 respondents, or did the survey mix some of the women bloggers who responded to our survey?
When I took the survey, I found it uncomfortable - it asked the name (or address?) of my blog, and then asked a bunch of personally identifying questions. I blog under my own name, so I guess that info is all out there for me. But it was still uncomfortable to share it in a way that could be directly connected to me.
It's possible that other women bloggers (especially pseudonymous ones) might have had a similar reaction.
Hi Kim,
you find the total number of respondents at the beginning of the summary (n = 78). Specifying the address of the participants' blogs has been voluntary (question not marked with *). There were several respondents who didn't send us their blog address.
I was uncomfortable about that aspect, don't remember if I noticed that some questions were required and some weren't. If I took this survey over again - well, I wouldn't take it at all!
Hi folks,
I think it was me who initated the "who are you?" question (or, anyhow, I'm willing to take the blame). Specifically what I envisioned was a graph showing which blogs popped up when, and I wanted to be able to label each "range" with the blog's name. Sorry that it made you uncomfortable. I think that might be what happens when you've got three guys who all blog under their own names designing a survey. Future researchers, take note!
C
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