Gender Swapping Survey

I am aware that requests for residents to take surveys are met with general disdain, derision, and often humorous responses. However, for a variety of methodological reasons, requesting residents to fill out surveys here makes sense, at least from a research perspective. Accordingly, I letting it be known that I am writing a doctoral level dissertation on gender swapping.

If you are interested in taking the survey, please follow the link below

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=QOfIzb0_2fIBcgaQpCuTmcfA_3d_3d

It will probably take about 20 minutes to complete.

Thank you for your time.

If you have any questions about this research, or are interested in receiving the results from the research, feel free to email me at [email]kgrosman@wi.edu[/email] with "second life survey" in the subject line.

Omfg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Noooooooo Never!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sob

It doesn't take 20 minutes.

hmmm I was actually a bit interested in this one. I answered the first question and that was that. They must be weeding out people who do not meet thier criteria??

Surveys always confuse me.

Quite honestly, in my opinion this is one of the better surveys I've taken, that was presented through the SL forums.

ok I went back and retried. I think it just glitched the first time. It really was an intersting survey. I thought it was interesting. I should ask for the results.

If you knew, why did you do it? Why does it make sense? The sample size is both too small and will deliberately skew your sample. Furthermore...

"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

Actually, hate to say it but that one was quite intelligent. Only problem was with the income question....what currency are those numbers in....many of us don't earn US dollars.

I really hate that I hate surveys, but are compelled to go look at them.

Please note that the OP's forum birth date is May of LAST year, so they have experienced SL. They might not have posted here very much, but at least they have read enough to be aware of how leery we are.

Best of luck and hope you continue to enjoy SL after the survey is over with.

this week it is gender surveys i guess..

is there a connection or do other surveys give ideas for new ones?
i just see a lot that have something in common other than the actual SL topic

Your survey won't accept a number large enough for me to enter "how long I've been playing massively multiplayer online roleplaying games".

you know your just researching ppl that take surveys your results will not reflect any real data i dont understand why anyone would use a survey that anyone can use or not use
you can sumerize anything from the resluts unless its a forced survey

I did it. 10 minutes.

Given that Sumer is where record-keeping and accounting really developed, I should complement you on your typo. Unfortunately that would lead to a world-shattering kaboom...

I found it interesting but i did not answer the income question as i feel that has no bearing onwhat the questions are seeking. The only other problem i had was it asked if i played a non human, i said no, then it asked me questions relating to me playing a non human

I entered 120 months just fine. I sincerely hope you weren't counting Meridian 59 as "massively".

You were so polite I had to go ahead and take it. Having worked for a couple of different survey companies, including Gallup, I must say you did a professional job.

That's it though. No more surveys for me for at least 3 months.

Awesome!! Hehehe!

I'll do the survey for 10 US dollars though.

I must say, that was a far more intelligently put together survey than I was anticipating. I came into it totally expecting to have to come back to the forum to say "Your survey couldn't apply to me because of _________." But I don't have to do that because you made a point of asking the all important why behind the answer to just about every question. Nicely done.

My only minor issue with it is it would have been nice to have been able to see an overview of the questions in advance. One or two of my answers would have been slightly different had I been able to see what additional questions would be coming down the road.

Chosen Few:

I tried sending you a private message, but you do not receive them. Therefore, I am posting this in the public forum.

Thank you for taking my survey.

I am glad that you think the survey was intelligently constructed and that it seemed to apply to you. I tried to make it that way. And I concur that the question "why" is usually more interesting than mere descriptions of behaviors.

If you are willing to share, I would be curious to hear what questions you would have responded to differently if you had been able to see an overview of the survey in advance. However, I would prefer not to have the discussion viewable to the public. Feel free to email me at [email]kgrosman@wi.edu[/email].

Yeah, my forum account has been broken for years. I can't access PM's, can't view most attachments, and can't access at least half of the preferences options. LL has absolutely no idea why. Everything works fine for my alt accounts, just not for this one. It's really annoying.

In any case, I don't think the question thing is serious enough to warrant any lengthy discussion. As I said, it was only a very minor complaint, and the answers I refer to would only have been very slightly different. It's got more to do with categorization in my own mind than anything else.

If you don't mind, I'm OK with talking about it here. The answer I gave to the question of androgenous avatars would have been a little different had I known there would also be a similar question about non-human avatars. That's all.

If I'd known that non-human would be a separate category from androgenous, I probably would have answered 0% to the androgeny question. My human avatars all have distinct genders. My non-human ones sometimes do and sometimes don't.

From that information, you'll probably have no trouble figuring out which survey is mine, so I'll make it easy on you. It's the one that says "See my answer to the androgenous avatar question" under the non-human avatar question. Now that you know that, I'll trust you to keep this minor breach of my anonymity to yourself, and not share my other answers in any personally identifiable way.

Only because he changed the survey. It wouldn't allow numbers higher than 99 originally.

This is a pet topic of mine and I found the survey quite interesting. I would have liked to have a text box at the end for "further comments" (big enough to write an essay in) because I have a lot of thoughts about gender that weren't covered by the questions.

Lewis --

Thank you for your interest in this survey.

You also seemingly do not receive private messages and so I am writing to you in this public forum.

I have gone back and amended the survey so that includes a space for "further comments". I would also enjoy it if you are willing to share your "further comments" you have regarding gender. Please feel free to write them here in this forum, or email me at [email]kgrosman@wi.edu[/email].