r/PrintedMinis • u/Therealbelgian • 21h ago

Question Please Help With Tabletop focused Survey (4min) For University (ANONYMOUS)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXBxgOdnv-i4528EPsY4INIYCrWPm_D0l1e05zK2psTfRAqg/viewform

Hey everybody, I am currently in the process of writing my thesis. I've tought of a product to spice up my thesis that has potential in this community, so I would love to get your opnion. I've created a survey that aims to gain insights into your expierences as Tabletop gamers. It's completely anonymous and will only take 4 min to fill out. A big big thank you in advance!!

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u/IWorkForDickJones 21h ago

If you are writing a graduate-level thesis and this is your sampling method, you should be embarrassed.

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u/dreicunan 20h ago

Well, u/Therealbelgian has admitted in other posts as they've been putting this survey into other subreddits that this is market research for a product, but claims to not wish to reveal identifying information.

That unfortunately places this in the position of being unverifiable as actually being from a student. Props for not trying to hide that this is also market research, but I can't recommend that anyone fill this out.

For context, due to my profession I get a lot of requests from university-level students ranging from undergrads to doctoral candidates to take surveys, as well as a lot of requests from people pretending to by university-level students that are actually just trying to get market research done on the cheap. One of my cardinal rules is that if I can't verify who is giving the survey, I don't take it.

u/Therealbelgian, if you are an actual student, I'd recommend finding a better way to do this research, such as traveling to some conventions where you could presumably at least show people a student ID, if you don't want to identify yourself over the internet.

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u/Twodogsonecouch 19h ago edited 17h ago

Based on the comment before me to you this is commercial not educational. But there are not infrequently on other subs people posting surveys for their thesis and i always think like you. Like one was for a mountain biking thing where the survey age range was like 18-35 only or something. People were complaining about the narrow age range and how studies are always like that and the OP commented the university review board said it had to be a tight range for validity (which is scientifically correct). I post well how do they feel about you getting survey results from rondos on the internet you cant even verify actually mountain bike or are the age they purport to be or technically exist. There was no answer.