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Author Topic:   Measuring difference between religious and scientific perspectives (Research help)
Mike_W
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Message 1 of 12 (599948)
01-11-2011 5:15 PM


Hi everyone, I'm new here and I am currently gathering data for my Msc in research methods and statistics. I was wondering if any members here would be kind enough to give up around 6 minutes of their time to help me gather some data which would be a massive help for me dissertation project. The questionnaire in the link measures the concept of 'open-mindedness'. The questionnaire link gives a fuller description of what I'm measuring and how the data gathered will be used. If any of you are interested in helping me, please follow the link. Thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time out to do this.
Here is the link: Survey
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Message 2 of 12 (599990)
01-11-2011 8:43 PM


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Message 3 of 12 (599992)
01-11-2011 8:54 PM


I submitted mine.

  
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Message 4 of 12 (600002)
01-11-2011 9:37 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Mike_W
01-11-2011 5:15 PM


and I mine
an interesting bevy of questions, however there was no neutral position to chose from ... you could likely merge 3&4 together and not get significantly different results.
At some point I would like to see the results ...
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Message 5 of 12 (600009)
01-11-2011 10:14 PM
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01-11-2011 9:37 PM


Re: and I mine
I agree that no neutral position is a problem. It makes the survey unanswerable for me.
I am also concerned with the tone and wording of some of the questions. This one in particular sends huge alarm bells.
quote:
I believe that the "new morality" of permissiveness is no morality at all
What is this "new morality"? Where is this "permissiveness"?
Sounds like a very judgmental and religious based question. I have better things to do then to help out a fundie doing research that will be used to further condemn people like me.

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Message 6 of 12 (600014)
01-11-2011 10:28 PM


Survey writes:
I think there are many wrong ways, but only one right way, to almost anything.
This seems very vague.
(But I think my sat-nav would still "strongly disagree", though.)
Mike_W writes:
The questionnaire in the link measures the concept of 'open-mindedness'.
Survey writes:
The purpose of this questionnaire is to measure differences between religious and scientific belief.
These conflicting statements make me suspicious of the survey.
Mike_W writes:
I am currently gathering data for my Msc in research methods and statistics.
I am not convinced.
{abe}
Quite a few of the questions seem to be listed here.
{abe}
Ah...correction. It is from here.
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Theodoric
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Message 7 of 12 (600017)
01-11-2011 10:35 PM
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01-11-2011 10:28 PM


Survey writes:
The purpose of this questionnaire is to measure differences between religious and scientific belief.
I didn't see any questions about science in the survey. Evidently anything the opposite of religious belief is science?
Mike_W writes:
I am currently gathering data for my Msc in research methods and statistics.
If true, I would like to know what school he is attending.
Ah...correction. It is from here.
Ahh, a plagiarist too. Interesting.
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Message 8 of 12 (600019)
01-11-2011 10:38 PM
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Edited by Panda, : a sort of double post.

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Message 9 of 12 (600045)
01-12-2011 1:31 AM


I found that I strongly agreed or strongly disagreed with almost everything. It might just have been the mood I was in....
Edited by ringo, : spelling.

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Message 10 of 12 (600051)
01-12-2011 2:52 AM
Reply to: Message 4 by RAZD
01-11-2011 9:37 PM


Re: and I mine
At some point I would like to see the results ...
Same here.

There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002
Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969
Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

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Message 11 of 12 (600055)
01-12-2011 8:11 AM
Reply to: Message 6 by Panda
01-11-2011 10:28 PM


Hi Panda
These conflicting statements make me suspicious of the survey.
I am skeptical of any survey being able to show results that aren't heavily influenced by how the questions are asked.
{abe}
Quite a few of the questions seem to be listed here.
{abe}
Ah...correction. It is from here.
Interesting to compare them, and curiously I think the one for children has better wording of the questions ....
The overall average score according to the listed results (weighted for number of responders on your second link) is 170.07/41 = 4.1
I wonder how neatly the data clustered?
Enjoy.

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Larni
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Message 12 of 12 (600057)
01-12-2011 8:39 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Mike_W
01-11-2011 5:15 PM


Have you validated this questionnaire? Is this a pilot study or the real deal? Some of the terms used and hidden negatives could be torn apart and re phrased to be more precise. That would pay dividends when you are coding; whoolly terms make for wholly codes and themes and this leads to suspect conclusions.
Give me a shout as I'v not long done a qualitative MSc.

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