My late grandfather always said, "Better out than in!" Usually he said it when we were home sick at his house and blowing our noses or puking, but it works for writing too. Words on the page COUNT. Thinking is necessary, but at some point you need to get out of your head & onto paper. Tinker later.
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Monday Giggle! I should probably start my planting soon!
I'd definitely be in the purple wedge if I'd filled out this survey.
A surprising 14 people think Starbucks' coffee is the best. Perhaps they're the 13 people who burned their taste buds out on Indian food?
Glad to know I'm not alone!
I agree.
THANK YOU to the Bluesky friends who helped gather crazy data for class yesterday! Survey 1 got 1,796 responses and Survey 2 got 796 -- I was hoping for a couple hundred each but you surpassed my wildest dreams!
Here are some highlights from the findings.
Thank you!! Bluesky folks came through this morning with 1,800 responses on the first one - I was hoping for 200! So I've reopened the other one that had an almost-decent number of responses.
We're not actually interested in generalizing to any population from this data, so representativeness doesn't matter. This data is just for practicing computation and, to a lesser extent, theorizing *why* we might expect a relationship between these variables.
Sunday Planning time! Synch the calendars & meal plan. Then take a really good look at what is happening between now and the end of term. Make sure ALL the family and end-of-year events are logged in ALL the places. Have a review with kids/spouse if needed to ensure everyone is on the same page!
I'm a military spouse - my number is absurdly high too.
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I can make the datasets available for faculty. DM me your school email and I'll forward the files when I've got them cleaned.
I ended up making up one that one ply toilet paper is a crime against humanity and should be abolished.
Feature, not a bug :-) This is learning experience for both stats and survey design
If you're enjoying this one or getting the closed notification, try this one instead: forms.gle/YjXZReFZVJ5H...
HAHA ok I'm adding that to the other round.
Yup! But honestly more of the other questions produce really wild 'hypotheses' and theories from students. People who like the Beatles appreciate good singing and are therefore less likely to agree that Wicked is any good. etc.
Thank you!! I especially enjoy asking students to theorize about potential relationships between questions before they test things. The answers are absolutely stupendous!
Give me an idea or two?? My other data collection for class has some double-barreled questions.
I can post some screen shots of the Google Form figures. Check this space tomorrow. :-)
Give me a question about toilet paper and I'll add it. :-)
Thank you! I was hoping for a couple hundred, but the internet gods favored me today and we're over 1,500!! In only 90 minutes!
Yup! It's a feature, not a bug. :-)
It generates a lot of interesting discussion.
They don't produce representative samples, no, but they can still be interesting for analysis practice. And meaningless mostly refers to the nondirected questions; there's no underlying purpose or research question motivating this, just a string of disconnected data generation.
That's GOOD! That means variation in the number of respondents - people who are missing one question you're trying to analyze drop from the analysis!