Topic: Reactions to Caitie Lustig's (UC Irvine PhD student, California, USA) survey (Read 3224 times)

Alright, great, I'm looking forward to the analysis. I'd imagine that most people who filled in the survey are reasonably balanced people, politically and geographically diverse... but hey, no point in me trying to guess the findings!

Good luck with it all.

Thanks for the heads up.  I'll take a few minutes and fill it out.

Hey everyone,

Just to let you know, I'll be closing the survey to new responses at the end of the day (12:00 AM PST).  After that I'll start doing some analysis and will report back here with some preliminary findings!

Thanks,

Caitie

I agree with this. Unfortunately it would be prohibitive to get people to take a longer, more in-depth survey without some sort of compensation. And I would imagine that the Bitcoin community is not large enough to trust any online survey too much and very few of us would participate in in-person surveys where they can ensure that each person gives only one set of responses.

As to her academic uses of this, who knows. Online anything/social media are very new fields and I imagine the grades and research expectations are curved to accommodate that.

What is important is that there is more work in the public sphere that makes Bitcoin more normal in the eyes of the uninitiated. This is just one step in that direction. Maybe the results get published and hit Google. Maybe 6 months later some writer trying to find a story to sell reads the survey results, then contacts Ms. Lustig. And we get an opinion being considered that is more informed than so many of the morons currently opining on Bitcoin (...how many articles did you read about a BTC crash after S.R. was taken down?). This is still the beginning. The potential of Bitcoin will only be realized when there is sufficient awareness, knowledge, and accessibility.



P.S. To goxed: Lame dude. No one cares what anyone looks like. When you do stuff like that you seem childish. Of all the things online about her, you decided her picture was the most interesting to share, not her past research, not something that you think explains her intent here, not anything that matters at all.

I filled out the survey to help with research but I feel that the questions are leaning towards the amateurish, a bit sporadic and not very well thought out. It is a good start but I am not sure what kind of data she will be able to extrapolate from this.

I've just completed the review.

Caitie: I would like to know all the details of your research and ask if there is an opportunity for collaboration.

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Took the survey - Looking forward to seeing the results!

I took the survey and as mentioned above, I never take surveys.

I don't usually take the time to participate in surveys, but FWIW I think this one was very well-thought out. I'm interested in the results and I hope she gets a lot of responses.

Took it the other day. Thanks for the effort. Looking forward to your findings.

Not nerds?  That might be a stretch.     Oh, you meant too nerdy to even talk to girls.  I am not sure if the survey will completely determine that answer. 

I would love to see the results though. 

Everyone should take this survey.  It will show that we all aren't dread pirate roberts or "nerds" that mine bitcoins instead of talking to girls or criminal money launderers.

I completed it.  I figured they might want some female input. Probably not too many females filling the form out.

I had a hard time choosing my political angle though.  I took this survey a friend posted online a few days ago http://www.politicalcompass.org/ and found out I am way more libertarian than I thought! I guess just owning Bitcoin should have told me that!   I always thought I leaned towards the right-wing.  I said "Moderate." 

Completed it! Lets see what the analysis results say about BitCoins .

As I said in the additional comment section, some question are awkward for me because I have not actually spent any Bitcoin yet. However, I have been following Bitcoin for years.


Did you fail to read the previous post?

Thanks!  If I understand your question correctly, you're correct.  I'm sure there's large groups of bitcoin users that I'm missing by only posting my survey on bitcointalk and /r/bitcoin, which are my main sites of research.  I'll be supplementing my findings from the survey with interviews, hanging out in forms, reading blogs, and hopefully attending some bitcoin events IRL. While I'll really only be able to make claims about the communities of bitcointalk and /r/bitcoin, my focus is on the community aspect of bitcoin, and as far as I am aware this and /r/bitcoin are two of the largest, if not the largest, bitcoin communities online.

If you meant responder bias in terms of people not answering questions entirely truthfully in an attempt to make the researcher happy, I think the same answer more or less applies.  By sticking around here and talking with a number of people, I should get a good feel for the community.

I am also taking great care to protect the anonymity of my participants and am trying to very transparent about what I am doing to protect people's privacy.  So I hope that helps people feel more comfortable with talking to me.

Does this answer your question or did I misunderstand you?

To everyone who's been posting in this thread: thanks for doing the survey and for promoting it!  It's been exciting to see the number of responses go up through the day.

Also regarding the open ended questions: I know they're not everyone's cup of tea.  I'm really excited to analyze the results of those questions, but I know that not everyone is going to do them and that's okay.  I just appreciate that people are taking the survey and answering as many questions as they are comfortable with.