Texas Liberal asks help for a friend doing research:
I’ve been requested to ask my readers to consider taking part in a survey of uses and users of online sources of political information being conducted by researcher Tom Johnson.
Image from Oklahoma State University
Mr. Johnson is a senior scholar at the University of Texas School of Journalism.
Mr. Johnson says that most of the people responding have been conservatives. This is fine as far as that goes, but they’d like to balance it out so the survey is more representative of the full electorate.
The survey should take between about 15 – 20 minutes to complete.
You might also wish to consider passing along the link to the survey on Facebook or Twitter.
Thank you.
Don’t hope that your assisting with Dr. Johnson’s research will improve the writing or accuracy of anything you get on line, though. It’s research, not miracle working.
Typo — assume they left out “you” — “which of these groups do you like the least”
I’m working on it, but now I am at a question which says, “Which of these groups do like the least?” I’m not sure what that means. Which of those groups am I least like? Which group of people don’t I like? And furthermore, I wish to answer, “All of the above.”
Hey, George, thanks for trying!
I’ll pass your comments on to the professor.
I tried. I want to help, I really do. Got partway into it, then gave up. Then he asks; do I think blogs (and a few other online sources” are liberal or conservative? Wut? I cannot answer that. Tell me what blog (or other source) and I’ll tell you if I think it’s political or conservative.
This is so common with surveys, and academic surveys often go off the rails in just this way. They ask me to generalize to the point where the only thing I can click on is “close tab”.