[nfb-talk] Participants Needed for Important Study

[H. Field]

Well, we don't know which of the questions are seeking actual data 
they intend to use, and which questions are just there to gather data 
which they might, use.
Sometimes researchers gather data in addition to that which they need 
for the immediate, intended study topic but then they have other data 
to examine and use for other comparisons which might show unexpected 
trends. Many studies offer incentives to participants. Also, we don't 
know what other participants pools she has gone fishing in, so, any 
conclusions we draw from our current position of lack of information 
are no better than speculation and may, in fact, prevent what could be 
a useful study from getting participants.
I'm sure Arielle can respond on her own behalf but I think we need to 
support her until we have solid reasons for doing otherwise.
Just my thoughts.

Regards,

Heather Field
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Joseph Carter" <tjcarter at bluecherry.net>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Arielle Silverman" <hdsilverman at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Participants Needed for Important Study


I don't know Mike, I think she's going to have external validity 
concerns
with this.  How do we know that Federationists who want to win $250 a
representative sample of blind people in general?  *grin*

I notice that it is possible, from the data collected as part of 
simple
demographic information, to determine if there is a correlation 
between
organization affiliation and comfort with blindness.  Personally, I'd 
be
more curious to see those results than the ones the study is actually
looking into.  I suppose those are less interesting to people not on 
this
list though.


On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 08:48:44PM -0800, Mike Freeman wrote:
> Arielle:
>
> You can't bludgeon people into taking your survey simply by 
> saturating the
> universe with pleas. (grin) Either people will take your survey or 
> they
> won't. Target your audience. <smile>
>
> Mike
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