Participants from NI needed for study

gayleygoo

Done! Hopefully you've not too many to go now...

dafosham

Thank you ever so much gayleygoo.

I'm now at 212 so approximately another 100 to go.

dafosham

The survey response count has reached 215 today, thank you to those who have participated.

All support is very gratefully received as well as any further suggestions on where to post the link.

Nanpy

I just finished this survey and it's fundamentally flawed, in my opinion. There's no such thing as a Protestant or a Catholic community. There are streets and estates and villages but there is no overwhelming Catholic or Protestant community. Anyway...

So I identify with one "community" and I'm asked how I regard the "other" community - so I broadly don't trust them and have no interest in getting to know them better. Fair enough, I'm a bigot. Except if you ask me the exact same question about my "own" community I'd say I don't trust them and I have no interest in getting to know them better. I'm not a bigot, I just don't like people and instinctively suspect anyone who identifies themselves on a religious basis to be a potential nut-job.

I assume that most people would also answer these questions the same regardless of whether it was THEM or US being talked about. Trusting people are trusting, suspicious people are suspicious. That whole wall of questions, absent context, is meaningless. Unless you ask the exact same questions about how an individual regards their OWN community then you aren't able to measure the differences.

The actual questions really seem to apply to the ghetto-ized regions of the country that haven't entered the 18th century yet, never mind the 21st century.

Then there are questions like this:

"Allowing the other community to decide on political issues means that my community have less to say in how this country is run"

This, logically, only has one answer not a degree of opinions. This is a question with a right or wrong answer. (Spoiler: the answer is TRUE).

By section 5 I suspect most normal God-fearing folk (who I neither trust nor respect, remember!) will have glazed over or be frantically thumbing through an "Idiot's Guide to Critical Thinking".

I appreciate that a survey is generally designed to produce a desired result rather than actually uncover anything but this was startling shallow in focus and blatantly impossible to have any but one conclusion.

dafosham

Thank you for the feedback nanpy, I hope you related this in the comment box on the survey.

You have raised some interesting points.

Most importantly I want to clarify that the core aim of the project is to examine how time perspective is related to group relations. That is; the extent to which you live life based on the past, present or future.

The aim isn't to compare what Protestants and Catholics think of themselves and the 'other' group, that's been researched many times.

Further, it was not designed to get a desired result because we don't have a desired result, we want to find out if there is a relationship between these variables. This is new and exploratory research and will be interesting, to us at least (!), regardless of the outcome.

Anyway, thank you for your time and feedback, it is very much appreciated. Please contact me using the information on the survey if you want to feedback anything further.

BOBS

Done ......

dafosham

Many thanks BOBS, much appreciated.

dafosham

The response tally is now at 229, thank you everyone.

I hope you are enjoying the sunshine, let's hope it stays for a while!

dafosham

I'm now at 243.

Thank you for your continued support everyone

lowdenclear

At least 244 now. :-)