Personality Online Study

Dear Second Life Players,

I am conducting research on personality characteristics and online communities. If you are a female over 18 years of age, you may qualify to participate in this study. Participation entails filling out two personality questionnaires, answering questions about your Second Life use and avatar, and e-mailing pictures of your avatar to me. Participating in this study will take approximately 1 hour of your time. If you are interested in participating or would like to learn more, please copy the link below and paste it into your address bar.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/personalityonlinestudy

Thanks!
Ruth Grant

I do like the "you may qualify" bit

what a numbskull. posted the same "study" a week ago.

And who are you, that anyone should care about your research?

Oh, and you posted this to multiple forums here, a big no-no.

Please just go away now. Thanks!

*sigh*

REG, can you please take a look at this post:



Additionally, I see at least one rather problematic aspect to this (above and beyond the fact that you are rather unrealistically asking for an hour of our time): what do you mean by "female"? I assume you want RL females? How are you going to verify that?

What academic institution are you associated with?

What guarantees do we have that you aren't some 35 year old reject living in his parents basement looking for tossing off material?

What previous papers have you published on this subject and where can we view them at?

A real researcher would present their credentials when announcing their project, please do so now... or die a hideous agonizing death that all spammers deserve.

Patasha

Hmm. That's exactly what I thought when I read "answering questions about your Second Life use and avatar, and e-mailing pictures of your avatar to me."

I am conducting research on the physical characteristics of online females. If you are a female over 18 years of age, you may qualify to participate in this study. Participation entails filling out two personality questionnaires, answering questions about your Real Life, and e-mailing Real Live nude pictures of yourself to me. Participating in this study will take approximately 1 hour of your time. If you are interested in participating or would like to learn more, please send your RL nude pics to me at the email address below.

[email]phil@selffulfillment.com[/email]

Now that's more like it

Does the study pay for related medical expenses associated with participation in the study?

or unrelated for that matter, I need vision and dental, in order to participate.

No, but I can supply a wrap incase it's a bit cold where you are when you're taking the nude pics It must be removed for the pics, of course.

And what are you going to do with the pics?

I'm sure he won't do anything unsavory with them, after all he spends all his time associating with Bots. The interest is purely scientific. *grin*

The email address gives a pretty good hint at what I'll be doing with them.

Sorry I took so long to reply, but one-fingered typing isn't easy..

Oh yes. Nothing unsavory at all. It's purely for research

I let my alt take it.
She said it sucked and quit on page two.
Hope I don’t skew the results

Dear research player,

Please read the below:

"Similarly, some of the first educators and researchers in SL were a bit clumsy in their approach. There were early incidents in which Residents felt—rightly—that they were being spied upon or treated like guinea pigs rather than human beings. Imagine how you would feel if an entire class of students set up right next to your vacation hideaway, left trash lying around, logged your conversations, and posted them on the Internet with criticism and mean-spirited comments. This is exactly what happened to some early Residents. Things have improved greatly in the years since then, but sometimes SL Residents are still subject to that kind of inconsiderate behavior. For example, a constant stream of researchers (often students) posts on the Second Life official forums requesting that Residents please take their surveys. Most of these surveys include the same questions that have been asked over and over. Often they aren't spell-checked, or refer to SL as a game—a sure way to irritate a substantial number of Residents. Some Residents make a hobby of critiquing these surveys, pointing out how the questions and their wording make it clear that the researcher isn't familiar with Second Life. Some post outright that they are sick of badly planned surveys and suggest that the researchers log in and do their own research."

From The Second Life Grid: The Official Guide to Communication, Collaboration, and Community Engagement
by Kimberly Rufer-Bach
ISBN-13: 9780470412916

To paraphrase...

Research projects suck.

Do you give out Phil Ratings and do the 'subjects' get Phil Certified? You might find a certain Mr. Recreant filing some sort of action for infringement or some such... hey! Are you trying to steal someone's business name with this!!!?

hehe - no. The only ratings they'll get is the order in which i go through them during ... er ....during ........ er ... at my pleasu ...um leisure.

Now why does that sound laughably like the teenager who IMed me once claiming to do a study about how women feel about sex? A supposed study that included asking for a name on an 'anonymous' survey.

Here is the AOL IM log with identifying info stripped out:

8:32:19 PM him: Hi!
8:32:58 PM him: I am fro the same poly group
8:33:12 PM me: hi
8:33:23 PM him: how r u?
8:33:25 PM me: which one?
8:33:33 PM me: okay, yourself?
8:33:57 PM him: poly group of yahoo, where u r registered
8:34:24 PM him: what is ur asl?
8:34:25 PM me: yes, which one?
8:35:05 PM him: we r new to each other but our group is same
8:36:05 PM me: yes, but can you please tell me which one or is that a big secret? I am on several poly groups at yahoo
8:37:08 PM him: 888 Intro for *** Hi all, I am a pagan female in *** in a relationship with another woman. I have never been in a poly relationship before but recently realized I had a...
8:37:32 PM him: Its not a secret but i dunno the name
8:38:06 PM him: did u got it now?
8:38:50 PM him: r u busy some where?
8:39:39 PM me: okay, polyamory_***
8:39:56 PM him: yap
8:40:47 PM me: no, but I wanted a reference as to which list first, different lists are on different sub-topics/regions/etc
8:40:54 PM him: I wanna know ur feelings during poly sex
8:41:15 PM me: why?
8:42:09 PM him: coz I am a male.....I can't feel in way u can.......I am writing a research paper on it
8:42:38 PM him: I will not mention ur name or e mail
8:43:35 PM me: ask on the list then ... coming up to someone you do not know and asking them intimate questions without even introducing yourself is hardly the way to get an answer
8:44:49 PM him: introdution I can do right now but if u promise to co opp
8:45:58 PM me: besides, if my name/email is not going to be mentioned in the paper, why would you start things with 'asl?' ... bye.
8:47:28 PM him: its important to know asl of the person for research, I didn't asked for ur name n add..............think.
8:47:32 PM him: bye

Ya, that