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Hello people

I have put a survey online for part of my dissertation research for my
college final project. its only 6 questions, and should take no more
than 60 seconds to complete. i need as many responses as i can get!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=672191026951

thanks for your help

gavin

 

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gavin_con...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello people
>
> I have put a survey online for part of my dissertation research for
my
> college final project. its only 6 questions, and should take no more
> than 60 seconds to complete. i need as many responses as i can get!
>
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=672191026951

Hmm. This was a difficult survey for me to fill in, even though it was
short. I found it to be a poorly written survey, with what seemed like
a strong bias in the way it was written in favor of some results you
are hoping to get, and not much option for me to answer the way
I really felt. The question about the best way to experience
interactive narrative wanted me to choose between the baffling
options of 'highly interactive VR', 'animation', and 'film/video',
whatever those mean.

I also thought it was a bit odd to ask me to 'briefly describe' my
experience with interactive narrative. What aspect of it do you want
described? And perhaps the text field for this answer should be
longer than 31 characters, brief though that indeed is.


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J. Robinson Wheeler Games: http://raddial.com/if/
JRW Digital Media Movie: http://thekroneexperiment.com/

 

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J. Robinson Wheeler wrote:
>
> Hmm. This was a difficult survey for me to fill in, even though it was
> short. I found it to be a poorly written survey, with what seemed like
> a strong bias in the way it was written in favor of some results you
> are hoping to get, and not much option for me to answer the way
> I really felt. The question about the best way to experience
> interactive narrative wanted me to choose between the baffling
> options of 'highly interactive VR', 'animation', and 'film/video',
> whatever those mean.
>
> I also thought it was a bit odd to ask me to 'briefly describe' my
> experience with interactive narrative. What aspect of it do you want
> described? And perhaps the text field for this answer should be
> longer than 31 characters, brief though that indeed is.
>

I entirely agree. I was already lost on question 1 which stated:
Have you ever used an interactive narrative presented with digital media?

Here, does media mean graphics or audio? Or does it just mean an interactive narrative presented on some digital device (like a computer?)

Then, question 3, 'briefly describe the experience.' What is meant by 'the experience'? I have had many experiences with many different interactive narratives, with with digital media with and without graphic and audio digital media. Or maybe the question is asking for a brief description of my experience as a user of interactive narrative, like how many have I played over how many years...

I'm sorry. I just don't get it.

 

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"J. Robinson Wheeler" <jrw@jrwdigitalmedia.com> wrote:

> gavin_con...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > I have put a survey online for part of my dissertation research for my
> > college final project. its only 6 questions, and should take no more
> > than 60 seconds to complete. i need as many responses as i can get!
>
> Hmm. This was a difficult survey for me to fill in, even though it was
> short. I found it to be a poorly written survey, with what seemed like
> a strong bias in the way it was written in favor of some results you
> are hoping to get,

You were surprised? The OP clearly does not even understand the basics
of how to do surveys. A six question, one-minute survey; skewing of the
audience by advertising it here; skewing it even more by limiting it to
people who are willing and able to take a JavaScript-requiring web quiz
(as opposed to, say, a plain text one). All the hallmarks of a test
quickly thrown together by a complete layman, and guaranteed to have a
margin of error larger than the sample size. That, and the iffy
punctuation. And this is supposed to be for a dissertation? No
self-respecting college will accept it.

Richard

 

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Richard Bos wrote:
> J. Robinson Wheeler wrote:
>
> > Hmm. This was a difficult survey for me to fill in, even
> > though it was short. I found it to be a poorly written
> > survey, with what seemed like a strong bias in the way
> > it was written in favor of some results you are hoping to
> > get,
>
> You were surprised? The OP clearly does not even understand
> the basics of how to do surveys. A six question, one-minute
> survey; skewing of the audience by advertising it here; [...]
> All the hallmarks of a test quickly thrown together by a
> complete layman, and guaranteed to have a margin of error
> larger than the sample size. That, and the iffy punctuation.
> And this is supposed to be for a dissertation? No
> self-respecting college will accept it.


I'm glad you and Paul Drallos posted to back me up on this,
because I spent part of the day wondering whether I had just
been overly cranky this morning, and that maybe it was
inappropriate to have posted that. But you've described
precisely the impression I got from it.


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J. Robinson Wheeler Games: http://raddial.com/if/
JRW Digital Media Movie: http://thekroneexperiment.com/

 

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Paul Drallos decided to quoth unto the people:
> I entirely agree. I was already lost on question 1 which stated:
> Have you ever used an interactive narrative presented with digital
media?
>
> Here, does media mean graphics or audio? Or does it just mean an
interactive narrative presented on some digital device (like a
computer?)

I don't think that the person has actually $played$ a work of IF. Their
idea of interactive narrative seems to be a glorified CYOA with
graphics and sound, as shown by the fact that he takes some really
puzzling assumptions (like that interactive narrative has to have
graphics), and questions things which are more or less so established
in the IF community (like the fact that the narrative has to stop to
allow user input). 'nuff said.

 

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On or about 4/27/2005 1:14 AM, J. Robinson Wheeler did proclaim:
> I'm glad you and Paul Drallos posted to back me up on this,
> because I spent part of the day wondering whether I had just
> been overly cranky this morning, and that maybe it was
> inappropriate to have posted that. But you've described
> precisely the impression I got from it.

Not to mention that he posted it in at least two groups, without
bothering to cross-post. I filled it out, but I was completely
underwhelmed by it.