Re: [gutvol-d] Volunteer Needs Help with Doctoral Survey
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I don't think this went through the first time, so here goes again. Sorry if it's a duplicate. If you haven't gotten around to completing this survey, let me encourage you to do so. Ellen is not just someone who dropped in here to get her survey filled out. She has been a volunteer for a while and helped out sending CDs and DVDs. Also, it doesn't take long at all. Sincerely Aaron Cannon At 07:57 AM 8/1/2005, you wrote:
Hello,
My name is Ellen V. Hage and I am doing my dissertation on e-book technology usage and self-efficacy. I am off my target of needed participants. Hopefully you all can help be out. The survey has only 28 questions and should take no more than 5 minutes to complete. The survey is a blind survey and doesn't collect any confidential information. The URL is:
Thanks, again,
Ellen V. Hage _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d
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Aaron Cannon wrote:
If you haven't gotten around to completing this survey, let me encourage you to do so. Ellen is not just someone who dropped in here to get her survey filled out. She has been a volunteer for a while and helped out sending CDs and DVDs. Also, it doesn't take long at all.
I'm afraid that recruiting a significant portion of your respondents from gutvol-d will give you non-representative results. Also, many questions are `ambiguous': "I feel confident about my ability to purchase e-books online." I feel *very* confident about my ability to do so, but I would *never* do it. I would buy the paper edition, because I'm sure the paperbook remains usable if I have to change my bookshelves. Also I can lend the paperbook to my friends etc. The survey should be separated into 2 parts. Part 1 about the acceptance of free ebooks, Part 2 about the acceptance of fettered ebooks / DRM / proprietary devices / proprietary formats etc. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 04:34 PM 8/7/2005, you wrote:
I'm afraid that recruiting a significant portion of your respondents from gutvol-d will give you non-representative results.
So that we're all clear, I wasn't asked to vouch for her. I simply thought I'd step in and do so as she isn't that active on this list from what I can tell, but she does help out with the DVDs. Still, I agree with you that asking the volunteers who create Ebooks about the same will produce skewed results. I would assume that this is not the only place she has sought help, but can't say for sure. Sincerely Aaron Cannon - -- E-mail: cannona@fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona@hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 Comment: Key available from all major key servers. iD8DBQFC9pKEI7J99hVZuJcRAk7jAJwKKtQC5r4MrIH/gyS+JmvuhkYzSACghUEM ROwcwxrw4lqpSGhcsawMlrE= =U15S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Marcello Perathoner