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Damian Porter

Survey

Hello everybody,

 

I am looking for people who would be willing to help me with a questionnaire I composed for my term paper on linguistic relativity. As native speakers of English are hard to come by over here (Germany), I was hoping to find volunteers here on STSF. In order to participate the only prerequisite is that you are a native speaker of English.

If you want to help me out, please copy and paste the questionnaire into an email, fill it out and send your replies to [email protected]

It will be completely anonymous, and will only take you about five minutes. You would really help me, as this will get better the more data I have. There are no wrong answers.

 

I thank all of you in advance

 

A.

 

Questionnaire on Linguistic Relativity

1) Age

Please mark your age group with an X

14-17 ( )

18-24 ( )

25-34 ( )

35-49 ( )

50-64 ( )

65+ ( )

2) Gender

Please mark your gender with an X

male ( )

female ( )

3) Education

Please mark your highest education level with an X

Some secondary education ( )

GCSE ( )

High school diploma/GED ( )

A-Levels ( )

Some college ( )

Undergraduate degree ( )

Graduate degree ( )

3) Which country and state/county do you live in?

4) Which words do you know for precipitation below 0 °C/ 32 °F (including words for said precipitation on the ground)?

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

...

5) Please give short definitions of the examples you just gave.

6) Please order your examples by frequency of use.

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Unfortunately, though you say your survey results will be annonymous, filling out this survey and emailing it to you allows you to know the age, location, gender etc of STSF users. I would be happy to help you in your survey, but I (and I'm sure other stsfers) would appreciate a truly annonymous way of getting this information to you.

 

-Sam

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Unfortunately, though you say your survey results will be annonymous, filling out this survey and emailing it to you allows you to know the age, location, gender etc of STSF users. I would be happy to help you in your survey, but I (and I'm sure other stsfers) would appreciate a truly annonymous way of getting this information to you.

 

-Sam

 

Wow. Gee. Well, yanno I think that the age range and the location are pretty broad. Like 14-17, 18-24, 25-34? As for the sex, there are lots of us who cross-sim anyway. 'Course it's up to you if you'd like to participate or not. ::shrug::

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Hmm...doesn't everyone have a Yahoo, MSN etc. e-mail addy to use in cases where you don't want people to know who you are? As for age range and location...25-35 year old guy from, say Maryland...I don't exactly know the statistics of Maryland's population but my guess is that it'd be difficult to find out who you are. ::shrugs::

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You all have a point. If you're paranoid, don't fill out the survey. If you want to participate then go for it. If you don't want to participate in Damian's school study, then don't. Just make your decision and go from there.

 

I don't recall having to compose a survey during school; I do recall getting stuck with the study groups where we had to turn in joint papers. Most of the people were nice and we all worked well together, but sometimes the experience was akin to getting a tooth worked on before the painkillers kick in.

Edited by Kansas

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Oh, God, yes, Kansas...story of my life. It's gotten to the point where I will avoid group work even at the expense of more work on my own part, just because there's always at least a 75% chance of ending up with someone who just does not give a frack. ;)

 

My brother IMed me the other day plaintively asking, "Why am I always in the group with the kids who do nothing but talk about video games?" ;) Apparently it hasn't stopped since I left high school.

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Oh, God, yes, Kansas...story of my life. It's gotten to the point where I will avoid group work even at the expense of more work on my own part, just because there's always at least a 75% chance of ending up with someone who just does not give a frack. :P

 

My brother IMed me the other day plaintively asking, "Why am I always in the group with the kids who do nothing but talk about video games?" ;) Apparently it hasn't stopped since I left high school.

 

I think group assigments are a malicious ploy to stick it to the "A" students and bring up the grades of the "C and below students.". ;)

 

"A" Student: I can't believe I got a "B".

"C and Below" Student: I can't believe I got a "B"!

 

Not bitter though...really.

 

...

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::chuckles:: Yeah. Pretty much. The better you do, the more likely you are to be set up with someone lower down in order to be a "good influence."

 

::not bitter either:: ;)

Edited by Samantha_Kent

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An individual student, primarily in college/highschool, really needs to develop their own study habits. Now, when you get out in the working world, yes, you will need to co-operate with other office workers on projects, so I understand teachers or professors or what have you trying to impart the whole work group atmosphere on certain projects.

 

Doesn't mean I liked it when it happened to me though. ::is not bitter either :-P::

 

This one guy who I had been paired with did not show up for a meeting. I had no clue what happened to him, so I spent four hours working on my last minute version of the paper that night. Then, he shows up the next day before the class with a completed paper and offers to turn it in for the both of us. Now, the gesture was nice, but I still wasted four hours of my study time working on the project solo, didn't I?

 

Then, there was the Sociology class study group that I was paired in, and we had to do a presentation together. Everyone pulled their weight, no one was clueless, and the presentation went off really well.

 

Overall, I preferred the In Class study groups where you brain stormed for twenty minutes with each other and then continued with the class.

 

And, I always liked the regular study groups as well, no projects, just full on study for the course(s). I was saved my last semester by a fellow History student ( Chuck - I totally remember his name!) during a study session; he helped me out with one course project and kept me sane!

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And, I always liked the regular study groups as well, no projects, just full on study for the course(s). I was saved my last semester by a fellow History student ( Chuck - I totally remember his name!) during a study session; he helped me out with one course project and kept me sane!

 

::chuckles:: The one study session I ever hosted was for an AP Government class that we all hated. It started out strong and useful but basically devolved into all of us eating junk food and complaining about the teacher (pregnant twice in two years and both times going on maternity leave just in time not to help us with the AP test!) and the class. TONS of fun, but not very useful.

 

Hehe...sorry, Damian, we're dragging your threat thoroughly off-topic.

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An individual student, primarily in college/highschool, really needs to develop their own study habits. Now, when you get out in the working world, yes, you will need to co-operate with other office workers on projects, so I understand teachers or professors or what have you trying to impart the whole work group atmosphere on certain projects.

 

Wait, so they were preparing me for life, not STSF intradepartmental relations?

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Wait, so they were preparing me for life, not STSF intradepartmental relations?

 

Wait, STSF isn't life?

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First of all, I would like to thank the people who have participated so far.

 

I understand concerns for anonymity, I'm quite peculiar about it myself. I tried to make things as general as possible, but unfortunately I need some background information.

 

So I hope I will still hear from some of you, and those of you that have concerns I thank for taking your time to read through this.

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Ok. I'll stop being paranoid. And I too dislike group work, because it involves socialization with people I don't know, and that's not for me. I was in a class where every other research report was a group assignment and the groups got mixed up for each one. It was quite annoying.

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Wait, STSF isn't life?

It isn't? ::sees all her idea's and dreams crash and burn::

~Zaz

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Group Work.....Oy Vey. A great concept with so many possibilities for failure. Wait a minute, I've seen group work do well before!!! Last time I gave a test and the students thought they were getting away with 'cheating' !!! Worked well for me, I didn't have to grade those tests!!!

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