Dissertation help needed from Benelux and UK parents?!
 

Hi everyone! I am doing a Marketing Masters Student from Dublin College University, Ireland. I am doing a questionnaire as part of my dissertation to research the internet and social media usage of parents, with particular attention to holidaying topics.

I would really value hearing from you parents out there about this. I would really appreciate if you would just take a few minutes to do this very quick questionnaire -http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VNWWLDF- Thanks VERY much in advance for your help!!

Sarah

Your link seems to only lead to the homepage of Surveymonkey. I am assuming this was not your intention.

Dublin College University?
Do I detect a fishy smell?

Can't imagine why Surveymonkey would advertise here - unless someone here wants to set up a survey of advertisers maybe ;)

Thanks for letting me know about this problem hetismij, it was definitely not my intention! I don't understand why the link will not work, I have asked some friends to click on it now again and it directs them to the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VNWWLDF. Thanks for letting me know about this, I will try to see what the problem is ;)
Miss Prism I assure you there is no fishy smell!

The link is working now.
Not sure you want my responses though with all my kids grown up - they'd be better at answering I suspect, but I doubt they would do it.

Ok, I think it was the dash at the end of the 1st link that effected it, sorry about that! I will repost! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VNWWLDF Thanks again!

I thought it was University College Dublin. But what do I know?

I'm with Miss P: if the alleged masters student can't even get the name of the place she's supposed to be studying at right, then either she's a fraud or standards in Ireland's educational system are even worse than I thought.

Either way: don't touch this with a twenty-foot pole.

"I would really value hearing from you parents out there about this." - do you realize we ARE parents here?

If the dash is "effecting" the link than it shouldn't be any college or university - but perhaps middle school grammar.

Also the survey is very poorly designed - and will provide essentially no information. If you turn the results of this in (there are too many errors to list) you will very probably fail.

Finally, I fail to see what this has to do with travel. It's simply about the use of Facebook et al - not travel- and really doesn't belong here.

My other account has been suspended and that is fine I understand that it looked suspicious or whatever but just so you know -

First of all, to Miss.P and flanneruk - there are two universities (similarly named) in Dublin - indeed there IS a University College Dublin (UCD) but there is also MY university Dublin City University (DCU). Brilliant university actually.
Secondly, ofcourse I realise you are parents, that's why I said YOU parents.
Thirdly, I always get 'effected' and 'affected' confused - thanks for correcting me on this, it was a silly mistake.
Lastly, I regret that you do not like the survey design etc. but it is a descriptive questionnaire and a research lecturer actually was impressed with this. I am not a pro hence I am in college and I'm trying to learn.
I would give you the email address of my supervisor (which I have given to other groups in the past) but I feel he may get too many negative emails.
Lastly, apologies if I appeared to have commercial intent, I obviously dont, I'm just trying to get my questionnaire answered by the best groups I can find. I'm going to just forget about it, I will get my questions answered somewhere else. Thanks to those of you who did anwser it. Have a nice weekend, Sarah

Well - I do work for a communications agency and do a LOT of market research. And if your lecturer was impressed with that survey then you need a new lecturer or a different college. My intern (yes, she has a BA but it's in biology) can turn out a much better one than that on a highly scientific topic - with complicated skip patterns (if you don;t know what those are - ask your lecturer) in a couple of hours.

And your first and biggest mistake is that you have not appropriately defined either your topic or your audience up front. (Anyone who has children is a parent, if you want parents of children under the age of 5 or 10 you need to day so. And the survey is about all sorts of things other than travel - OR you have just put in a lot of extraneous questions).

(Although I have noticed when working with our european affiliates that they expect much less from their junior employees than we do - treating them almost as admins. They seem not to allow people any responsibilities until they reach a fairly elevated title and are at least 40 or so - where we let people move ahead as quickly as their abilities and dedication allow - often letting people day-to-day control of smaller accounts by the time they are 25 or 26 - and having brighter people named VP by the time they are 30.)