another shameless lend a hand thread
 

My husband and I have a friend who is doing a survey as a part of her dissertation for her doctorate, and she is looking for as many people as possible to take it. You dooo have to be 18 (it's not pg rated)
I thought I would completely embarrass her and make it available to all of you!

Seriously though, this is one smart woman (albeit younger & cuter than me.. damn it), and she would really appreciate the input.
She does play devil's advocate a lot, so don't assume that she's asking a silly question just to be silly.

Wolf - I think you might be working in a similar field? I'm pretty sure that in the description of the survey she describes what she does.

Thanks everyone!!

Here's the link

http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?id=128848

PS - after my husband and I finished the survey we both felt fat, gay & jiggly when we run. hahaha

Done, but I'm not sure I like how some of the questions were structured.

Troubleshooter - I agree.
Some of the questions seemed a bit off, however, knowing Angela as well as I do, I'm 100% sure she was aware that people would feel that way.

Crazy psych students... always messin' with us!

Thanks for doing the survey!

Yeah I did it too. As a skinny heterosexual with decent self-esteem, there were a lot of questions that didn't really fit me at all. I wanted to skip some questions after I had already made a choice, but I couldn't remove my choice, just change it to another one.

This is done. I answered them all, and like the others have reported, many were inapplicable, but got the closest answer anyway.

i now know that i'm a big fat lesbian trapped in a big fat man's body.

I got a 92%. what'd you get?

69

Net Nanny at work won't let me take it.

As a yo-yo dieter in the fat phase I'm not sure whether my contradictory opinions will help. Also I admire the female form but was "persuaded" twice into threesomes that hurt me emotionally (fool me once shame on you etc). So the sexual orientation questions were hard to answer.

I'll pass it on to people I think will answer sensibly as I assume numbers are important.

The parallels between us amaze me. :shock:

Took it -- I felt like I was contradicting myself on some of the questions, though. Do I sometimes feel bad about myself? yeah. Do I usually feel good about myself? yeah. Do I need to lose some weight around the middle? yeah. Do I feel self-conscious about being in a locker room? not really.

I caught myself worrying about the fact that my love handles make my boxers fold over at the top. Am I gay? :worried:

Quick side story -- last night, my friend/bandmate and I had to go to Walmart to get batteries, a toilet seat, and some chapstick. That was the gayest I've felt in a long time.


You should see the video, though.

TRUE STORY:

one night at 4 am, i stood in line at wall mart behind two fagulas buying a gerbil habitrail, and food. that's MY 'near gay' experience.

A friend of a friend is a doctor. He claims to have pulled so much garbage out of asses that every child born should be tattooed above the anus: "Exit Only".

What's a fagula?

Oh god now I am going to have to google it, just in case it's something like the goatse thing.

mrnoodle - that sounds just like my husband and his friend Wayne. A few months back they were out shopping together, pushing a baby stroller & talking about houses, kids, cooking...etc.

Very gay.

Anyhoo - thank you all for taking the survey!

Dunnit. For some furrin input.

fagula: see also fanoke, poofta, fairy, fag, sissy, faeg, nancyboy, queen, queer, etc

So what do you think they were doing with the gerbil thing?

wait a minute. nevermind. Now I'm not going to be able to get Richard Gere out of my head.

I took the survey, too. I hope I win the iPod! :)

done... hide the rodents!

Ok - I got an explaination for the reason the questions are worded the way they are.

She said something about psychometrics and established psychological measures, and if she could have made up her own measures she would have worded the questions differently.

See that's exactly what I was thinking. MmmHmmm..

Ang, if you are reading this, lend a hand here.

took it....
now i wanna know just how weird i REALLY am.
from the survey, of course. You all know already.

Does my sig make me look fat?

No, it just makes you look gay.

Sorry.

and capnhowdy - errm....yes, we do know already.

hmmmm... I resemble that remark.
I'm sending you a bag of ice for Christmas. ;)

Silly. That was Jerry Penacoli.

Ummm ... bullshit?

I've taken classes in psychometrics, test construction, and so on. The results of her study are going to end up being off, very off, because a high proportion of the questions REQUIRE that you be homosexual in order to answer them. She needed either to completely rephrase the questions or to add a "not applicable" choice.

Hey - I just have my high school diploma. What do I know?

I got a reply from the test giver and based on their response it feels like the questions were canned. They didn't seem entirely comfortable with the wording either.

Either they are happy with flawed results or they are testing for something other than what they are announcing. All due respect to the researcher, but man, that is probably the lamest topic I have ever seen. Should go great in a journal, though.

WHEW!!!!

Then we're not all gay after all. :bolt:

My left pinky toe is 100% homosexual. He's always hitting on my right pinky toe. What a boor.