help my mom w/survey for her class, please?

[ovrclokd]

mom's working on a research project on how the various generations interact in the workplace; this is for a class she's taking (night classes at queens university towards a masters - about a 10-year endeavor

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[reedrover]

Ok, now that I've taken the survey, may I ask what class this is? I'm curious because of the inherent bias in a lot of the survey questions. I find it interesting how little her survey allows for expression of political opinion vs. economic.

[ovrclokd]

i don't know the title of the class, but i just asked her, and will reply again when i hear back!

[ovrclokd]

mom says:

"Thanks for sharing my survey around. I'm a little low on the 18-29 respondents, so I hope some of your millenial friends respond.

The class is Communicating Across Generations with an emphasis on the workplace. Our text book is a little out of date, but it was inexpensive and the professor is supplementing with recent info.

The survey questions were actually taken from a survey done in 2004 by the National League of Cities. We are going to do a comparison between that data and our survey. In order to do a comparison, we had to use the questions exactly as written in the 2004 survey. Our report will include data from two surveys done in 2004, three done in 2008, and our findings. Apparently surveys about the American dream are popular during Presidential elections."

who knew?

[reedrover]

Hunh! Well, now, that puts it in some really interesting context, and makes a bit more sense as to the bias in the questions.

Thanks for sharing!

[geekpixie]

I got to help out with the millenial end of the spectrum...apparently.

=b

[ovrclokd]

thanks! :)

[badger]

Done.

[ovrclokd]

thanks! *hug*

[fireba11]

Did that. :)

Although, it would've been nice to be allowed a little "Comment" space at the very end, maybe 5000 characters or so, for respondents to add some color to help define one's own take on the subject. Unless, of course, that would somehow screw with the data being gathered.

[ovrclokd]

apparently they're comparing it with data gathered in 2004 (see course and project description in a previous thread) so personal commentary is extraneous... thanks for taking it!

[morian]

Did my millenial part.

I have to say the one question about "an equal shot" is really annoying, since I can think of several ways to define that, all of which would change my answer.

[ovrclokd]

thanks for helping out!

the questions are pretty uniformly unpopular... i found them pretty frustrating for the same reason. they seem too open to interpretation to be getting any useful information.