Its bad when you are disappointed when something is not a fraud

[vrimj]

UPDATE Survey has been taken down "until it can be revised"
thanks to everyone who helped outt on this one

I was really rather hoping that the claim that the worst written survey of the polyamory community I have ever taken was to support a doctoral dissertation was not true.

Sadly after writing her and the major professor to complain about the

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[vrimj]

I don't think there is a way to give GOOD answers. It really is that clueless.

[vrimj]

That would have been reassuring

[rkt]

oh, research.

[kwanboa]

I heard if you get a High Score on the Lesbinator the grand prize might be me...while we're talking about "winning" partners and such.

[vrimj]

Well I am good at darts.

[kwanboa]

I think there's a dart aspect. Dunno. It's kinda rusty.

[velveteenviolet]

The questions that used the word "win" didn't feel right to me, either.

I thought your letter was particularly well-written, so there's that, at least.

[vrimj]

Thank you.
it is very frustrating wheni try to be productive and useful with my cranky and have it fail

[velveteenviolet]

That's understandable. But the way the questions were worded made me wonder if conclusions were already drawn, at least in the mind of the person who wrote the questions. So it's not surprising that they patted you on the head and thanked you for your concern.

[tisiphone]

I wonder why she didn't start with qualitative interviews for theory-building instead of an inappropriate quantitative instrument, given that quantitative instruments don't give any opportunity to work out what's not right with their existing assumptions.

[vrimj]

I am not sure either, it seems backwards. I also don’t understand why you would use questions validated for one community on a different one. It is like using questions about racial bias developed on an inner city african american population tttto study the effects of bias on the teenage childern of asian immigrants