"We should hold the people who made these questions accountable".... Whoa there buddy! Someone correct me if I'm way off here, but we, the survey takers, are not the ones to hold them accountable! It's called the peer review process. These social scientists will publish their findings (or at least try). Or perhaps they will just present them to their professors. And others will read the survey findings, look at the questions and say "hey, your survey was flawed -- these questions were too vague" (The technical phrase for that is failure at "operationalizing a variable" I think). And guess what? They won't get published, they won't get tenure. Or they get a bad grade. So, they are held accountable!! But that's part of the scientific process! Asking all sorts of questions and then the process of fine-tuning those questions and arriving at some "truth".
Zooey. And she's not married! (I find it funny when anyone filters on that. Oh, my chances just went up from 0.0000001% to 0.000004%.) (Also, I always feel piteous when I hear someone mention Death Cab For Cutie. Have the success you want, but...) (While I have my private sadnesses, you'll never know their names.)
I find myself going to vimeo and dailymotion more often than youtube these days! Especially on my mobile device... too much censorship on youtube.
I have to be. I need to finish laundry and I refuse to sleep while running the dryer cause I'm afraid I'll wake up to a house fire. lol
I'm only supposing this is the case because I've been doing these surveys for three years and the questions aren't original. Every now and then they slightly modify them but it's not original. Is it so much to ask that I want critical thinking from people who are studying human behavior and to not ask both stupid or loaded questions?
And yes in an earlier post I think I alluded to the fact that maybe the researchers are the big scammers and maybe the people like us picking up the scraps are the small scammers...we are both taking government money that isn't going to amount to shit in progress or learning.
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Ahh! You just reminded me that my clothes aren't dry. My old dryer takes 2 cycles to dry them. I guess I'll be up as well!
Again, and as the frog said: these aren't adults doing original, independent research - if they were they'd have the funding to not need to use mTurk to troll for subjects. These are students learning to research, and especially in the case of undergrads a) they can only do what the scope of the assignment allows them b) they don't really know *how* to research yet...that's why they're in college and they chose that major c) for god's sake, if in fact it's true the brain doesn't finish developing until the age of 25...what do you want, exactly? I'd expect a little bit more in the case of grad students, but even then they can only be as original as their advisors allow them to be. And while I'm liberal arts (not even soft sciences) I'm pretty sure it's the same across disciplines: you get farther if you do what's already been done, when you're new, than if you try to reinvent the wheel. I can understand your frustration with the same questions over and over again, totally. I've done those same surveys too. But it's not a conspiracy: your expectations are, I'm afraid, a bit high.
You are right I shouldn't expect more than I want. I stepped out of my lame MTurk world and asked why can't things be better. I never said it was a conspiracy I just imagined a better world for a half a second and then now I realize that's totally unjustified.
Art, I agree with you! I think there are plenty of reasonable reasons why we see many repetitive surveys. Your newbie explanation is right on! So, it's not really that big of a waste (except maybe for us talking about it so much!)
I just had a fight with someone I care about, because I stuck up for someone I don't give a whatever (please, insert your word here) about. Who certainly gives not half a crap about me. There's really something to be said for being a psychopath, or at least unconcerned.
With apologies. I had no intention to cause hurt feelings or to tell you what you should or shouldn't think, and I would like to see the world get better too. Who wouldn't? But being disappointed in these kids for not being able to bring that about is a bit like being disappointed in Algebra 1 students for not being able to solve differential equations. Who knows, one of them very well might be able to one day - - unfortunately though, most likely if you want to read about their research you'll have to go to the library and look it up in an academic journal. I don't think you'll see it on mTurk, just because of the limits on scope.