New survey for scuba divers

[RJP]

I've just fielded a new market research survey, and wanted to give ScubaBoarders a chance to participate.

As an added incentive to participate (not that SBers need a push to share their thoughts) everyone^* who completes the survey will have the opportunity to enter a drawing to win one of ten $25 gift cards.

IMPORTANT NOTE.

I would respectfully ask that everyone please refrain from any discussion of survey specifics on ScubaBoard. Doing so will have the unintended effect of skewing the number of people participating, who participates, and how they answer the questions. This is known as "distortive response bias" where something outside the survey itself introduces a bias to the survey responses. Posts like "Done" and "Good Luck" are fine - and greatly appreciated - but if you do have any comments or questions please PM them to me. I will respond to any PM with as much information as I can provide.

Without further fanfare, here's a link to the survey

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A ScubaBoard Staff Message...

link removed at user's request. This survey has been completed and the link is now dead

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Thanks in advance - Ray!

^*Note: unfortunately by "everyone is eligible" for one of the gift card prizes I mean "everyone in the US and Canada" at this point. The company I use to process the incentives can only provide gift cards that are valid in the US and Canada. If you are outside the US or Canada I'd still love to have you participate... you just won't be eligible to win one of the Gift Cards. (Or you can try to claim/redeem it, just know that it may not work for you outside the US or Canada)[/QUOTE]

---------- Post added March 22nd, 2015 at 09:59 PM ----------

Note to anyone who did the survey prior to 9:45pm Eastern time on Sunday (within minutes of it being posted): There was a glitch that required me to delete the first 10 responses. I saved the info for any of those folks who entered the drawing - and those people will be entered - but I had to toss out their answers. If you want to re-take the survey, that'd be great! If not, no problem. Just wanted to let you know.

 

[Kharon]

If the survey is "completely anonymous" you can't possibly know who to award prizes to - just sayin'

 

[alewar]

Normally, no correlation is kept between the answers and emails, so while they know who completed the survey, they don't know which answers did they provide. Or at least that's what they claim.

 

[Pullmyfinger]

Done.

 

[RJP]

If the survey is "completely anonymous" you can't possibly know who to award prizes to - just sayin'

Normally, no correlation is kept between the answers and emails, so while they know who completed the survey, they don't know which answers did they provide. Or at least that's what they claim.

The emails are a free-text field that gets pulled out of the survey platform for that specific response field at the end of the survey.

The survey is anonymous in that no individual responses are attributed to any individual, much less reported or shared with anyone as such. If I wanted to go to a fair bit of trouble I could pull each individual response and match them to the email address. Though I still wouldn't know who scubadude1972@gmail.com is (made up name) or who would find any value in knowing what his specific answers were. It is certainly of no value to me... I'm looking at the macro level.

For some surveys I'll offer groups/organizations that help distribute survey links the opportunity to receive aggregated responses for their local market, but again no PID (Personally Identifiable Data) or individually attributed responses are provided.

As mentioned in the survey instrument submitted email addresses will only be used for two things - both with the permission of the person who submitted their email address voluntarily:
- To notify the 10 winners
- To notify those who opt-in of future survey opportunities

Hopefully that clarifies things.

Ray

 

[Darnold9999]

Complete

 

[KevinNM]

Never mind.

 

[tennjay]

Done...

 

[drrich2]

Done.

 

[gcarter]

done.