Academic study on Star Trek.
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I fail to see what my reactions to words like love and George W. Bush have to do with ranking sci-fi movies. 
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I made up answers to the first page. It's irrelevant to Star Trek movies in general. If it's social data, like what political leanings Trek fans have, that's one thing, but I'm not doing math to help a survey. No offense intended.
This wasn't a survey, but an academic study. On whether it's possible to bias preferences. Well, I'm taking the study offline, since you guys just wanted the easy way out.
My advice would be to place the questions about how certain words/concepts make you feel at the end of the questionnaire. If I've learned anything from TrekBBS it's that Trek fans are inherently skeptical and savvy about avoiding online scams, so a link to a study that purports to be about one thing but right away starts asking about something else entirely will turn away many who read this thread.
Anyway, the TNG movies are way better, so this study is already invalid from the outset.
Anyway, the TNG movies are way better, so this study is already invalid from the outset.
My advice would be to place the questions about how certain words/concepts make you feel at the end of the questionnaire. If I've learned anything from TrekBBS it's that Trek fans are inherently skeptical and savvy about avoiding online scams, so a link to a study that purports to be about one thing but right away starts asking about something else entirely will turn away many who read this thread.
Anyway, the TNG movies are way better, so this study is already invalid from the outset.
Again, this was an ACADEMIC study. There was a reason I had those questions prior to the actual Star Trek questions. This wasn't just a survey to see which movie is most popular.
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If you redo your study, you could always include a TL;DR option, and then mark those Trek fans off the list.
In seriousness, though, I understand you have it as an academic study, but online surveys (and that's what this is, it uses the survey format, so I am correct in the usage) don't give firm results. Aside from the people who will most certainly mess with your statistics, there's no real measure for accuracy. I've seen people come through here hundreds of times, and they do these studies which are just prone to error, and it leads nowhere. An academic study via online survey over the internet about Star Trek isn't very rigidly academic. It's way too informal, really.
It also helps when you explain the foundation of your study. Being mysterious is nice, but many people will suspect an ulterior motive and will change their answers accordingly, once again skewing your results, and that's if people don't think you're just gathering market data and emails (which you state we would know what your study is about if we email you, which would give you our email addresses).
Just some very friendly, non-confrontational advice.
My advice would be to place the questions about how certain words/concepts make you feel at the end of the questionnaire. If I've learned anything from TrekBBS it's that Trek fans are inherently skeptical and savvy about avoiding online scams, so a link to a study that purports to be about one thing but right away starts asking about something else entirely will turn away many who read this thread.
Anyway, the TNG movies are way better, so this study is already invalid from the outset.
Again, this was an ACADEMIC study. There was a reason I had those questions prior to the actual Star Trek questions. This wasn't just a survey to see which movie is most popular.
Well your original post made it sound like that's exactly what it was - a study about Star Trek movies. So when you start off with questions entirely unrelated to Star Trek, of course people will be skeptical and think that you have sinister economic/data mining motives. If you are set in the way these questions are presented, then either describe your study in a different way from the beginning, or recognize that responses to such an online study will be inevitably unreliable.
Also, just because you tell us it is an academic study does not mean it actually is. And people HAVE done academic studies that were about the popularity of the Trek movies, so it's not out of line for us to assume that that was the actual purpose of your study as well.
Perhaps you won the Spanish national lottery.
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I won the UK lottery but I've never been to English.
More like the Nigeria Lottery sponsored by Prince Kasem Abdul.
