Masters Degree Data Assistance Required

[Argyll Andy]

tried social media and a couple of Z4 groups but it either gets removed immediately or people shout scam. Even a couple of other forums have done the same. Here and a couple of motorcycle forums have been my best responses. cant see her getting the 130 she needs but at least we tried.

Will keep plodding along and

She may or may not know/have tried this but there’s SM groups set up for dissertations questionnaires/surveys etc where there’s a “trading system”. Unconnected Students agree to fill each others out so they both get their numbers up.

My daughter did a bit of googling and joining university WhatsApp and FB groups to find them and got a good half of her required responses this way.

The other students had no knowledge/interest in her subject but it was the numbers they were both interested in. This seems to be quite common practice in the Scottish universities afaik.

As mentioned, LinkedIn is another good resource, getting people within her contacts to share with people outwith their shared contacts is another way of getting out to random groups of people. HTH

[RAYK47]

All done, was the stupid ipad it uses safari

Thansk Mikey.

[MikeyH]

My daughter had to do one these for her masters and she had one hell of a job getting them. Her's needed to be in a younger age group so I didn't think the forum would be much help to her

[RAYK47]

My daughter had to do one these for her masters and she had one hell of a job getting them. Her's needed to be in a younger age group so I didn't think the forum would be much help to her

that must have been a nightmare, at least with older people you can reach out to them easier. mind you she does need a few hundred, probably not so many when you need younger people.

[coldel]

Ive not really heard of this type of thing being a requirement before, but it seems a bit of a bizarre thing force them to do. Especially given that good research practice is to have a specific sample frame that gives meaningful output.

[Nanu]

It does give the impression that it is more about a numbers game than any quality research

[coldel]

It does give the impression that it is more about a numbers game than any quality research

Indeed which is why its such a shame she needs it to progress, as the sample frame is clearly going to be heavily skewed and need weighting - I presume its a tick box exercise rather than using the data in any meaningful way.

[Pondrew]

I presume its a tick box exercise rather than using the data in any meaningful way.

Welcome to modern day education! My daughter is going to Uni in September, doing a nonsense degree in a made up subject. The only thing I see she is going to gain for three years wasted is a massive financial debt (cos I ain't paying).

I tried to talk her out of it, but apparently I'm wrong!

[RAYK47]

for me, the University's should be able to get AI to provide the data dump. Afterall its about how she interprets it rather than the data itself.

What i have found is randomly posting stuff on forums and social media can get peoples backs up or they are sceptical and accuse it of phishing or a scam. I had mine ignored in many places and also i had it removed from groups and forums.

This group has been the most responsive to be honest and i am very grateful, especially as i have not been a member for very long.

[coldel]

for me, the University's should be able to get AI to provide the data dump. Afterall its about how she interprets it rather than the data itself.

What i have found is randomly posting stuff on forums and social media can get peoples backs up or they are sceptical and accuse it of phishing or a scam. I had mine ignored in many places and also i had it removed from groups and forums.

This group has been the most responsive to be honest and i am very grateful, especially as i have not been a member for very long.

Lots of survey software do survey auto answers i.e. random answers as part of the testing process. It is as I say a bit of a joke asking students who are not doing statistics or similar degrees to be expected to be able to write a proper survey and administer good survey practice and know how to interpret data correctly - this is a skill in itself which people get paid a lot of money to do. Looking at raw unweighted data question by question is not good data interpretation and not something that holds up at all in the real world.

It is adding a massive stress I am sure to her degree, one which she doesn't actually need given everything else she has to worry about.