If you have 10-15 minutes to take an anonymous online survey, a Belgian grad student (known as KatGabriel Gilgandra in Second Life) is conducting a study on virtual infidelity and other moral issues in SL. She's promised to share the results with New World Notes, and her survey has some interesting questions we often discuss here. Go here to take it.
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I spent time taking it, but was disappointed by the quality. Ultimately, I did NOT complete it, because they asked for a complete birth date. It seems the survey creator is unaware that asking for a complete birth date, not just the year of birth, makes the survey NON-ANONYMOUS! I would hope that someone working on a Master’s Thesis or their professors would be more intelligent. Pfftt - Academics!
Posted by: Valiant Westland | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 at 08:11 PM
This has to be one of the worst written academic surveys ever. It sounds less like an academic survey and more like a "I'm an idiot who engages in relationships in SL and got burned" survey than anything. And the look of the survey confirms it.
You've really slipped your standards as to what qualifies newsworthy topics. You've gone to ignoring stuff sent to you about topics that do matter, and publishing junk about relationships and celebrity look-alikes instead. I think it's time I reconsider what RSS feeds I stick in my reader.
Posted by: nurbs | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Keep it civil, please, I don't think that's a fair appraisal of this survey's intent.
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Do they mean real life birthday or secondlife birthday??
Posted by: Loki Eliot | Wednesday, June 03, 2009 at 02:19 AM
Presumably RL, but I've asked the researcher to handle these questions here.
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Wednesday, June 03, 2009 at 02:31 AM
Hi all!
I've already answered Valiant Westland via e-mail. We only need the year of birth, the day and month is not important for the statistics. And please, don't hate academics, they're only human. :)
@Nurbs: I'm sorry that you were disappointed, but I can assure you that the topic is worth to research on. And personally I have seen worse academic surveys than this one. The look of the survey was not designed by me, it is the standard look of the survey progamme. O, and I never got engaged in any SL-relationship. :)
@Loki Eliot: I mean RL birth date!
@James: thank you soooo much for me helping me here! Despite some critical remarks, I still believe it is a positive, constructive study.
Posted by: Katleen | Wednesday, June 03, 2009 at 02:27 PM