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[yulya_b]

Comments

[slashfairy]

thanks. would love to know.
missed the link at the end to more surveys. you have that handy?

[eve_prime]

I still have the window open. It's http://psych.hanover.edu/research/exponnet.html

[slashfairy]

thanks, i really appreciate your thoughtfulness.

[eve_prime]

No problem!

[eve_prime]

I wish the survey I'm about to put online were that short! :)

[yulya_b]

:)) Yes, I am happy this one turned out to be so brief.

[brooksmoses]

Interesting.

I'm especially glad to see that the study does a much better job than most things of its kind of not reinforcing the assumptions that losing weight is healthier (sometimes it isn't), or that everyone wants to lose weight.

(However, I would point out that of the three people I'm close to who I've talked to about weight management, one of the three is trying to gain weight for health reasons, due to being underweight. Thus, answers of "I am unhappy with my weight" are not reliable indicators of "I want to weigh less" -- it looked like the questions might be assuming they were, though I couldn't tell for certain.)

[enigmania]

Indeed. I fall in the category of wanting to gain some weight.

I also noted the absence of some sort of goal weight in the scenario, which made it more difficult to answer the questions.

[roseofjuly]

Same here. I'm a bit underweight and would like to gain some, even though really I'm not unhappy with my body size or shape.

[yulya_b]

Thank you for this comment. Actually, in this particular study the very awareness of or concern about weight is more important than the actual direction. However, still your comment is very important. We will take it into account in the continuation of the study.

[brooksmoses]

I can think of a number of ways it could be, starting with being likely to strongly affect how they view the numbers in the hypothetical scenario. (Those also looked like they might have been chosen to be near the survey taker's actual weight, in my case, which in my non-psychologist opinion would be a good way to do things.)

[joliecanard]

Are you sure they weren't? Because that guy thinks they were tailored and I was also sure they were and I am reasonably sure that he and I have drastically different weights, unless he is also 5"1"... but he looks pretty average in that user pic (which I assume is him).

[circesissy]

just an opinion- the question on the page with the graph "what do you think your weight will be in 2 months" was confusing. i didnt know if it meant what i thought my actual weight would be or whether what i thought my weight would be based on the hypothetical weight loss graph.

[biascut]

Ooh, that's a good point. I answered assuming that it meant what it would be if I were the person on the graph.

[yulya_b]

Yes. It was the assumption. It is our fault if it was not clear enough.