whenever we get on of these college or Uni students wanting us to fill out a surveymonkey we could fill in their surveys with utter nonsense?what do you think??
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The forum is supposed to be for the benefit of sufferers and people trying to help sufferers. Vulnerable adults are amongst the participants. These surveys may try to obtain personal information and they generally won't have been authorised by the institutions as the methods employed won't yield valid, representative opinions about anything so there won't be any benefit to the forum members. The surveys are liable to be used to perpetuate unfounded views and prejudices about autism. The students need to understand that it is bad science and that they need to go away and study some more about statistics and scientific methods. They won't get any real facts from the survey, they will get a very limited set of opinions from a small set of people who don't statistically represent a broad and balanced view of life with autism.
It isn't a massive deal but there are real risks and genuine reasons why they should be encouraged to go away and learn to be better scientists.
The forum is supposed to be for the benefit of sufferers and people trying to help sufferers. Vulnerable adults are amongst the participants. These surveys may try to obtain personal information and they generally won't have been authorised by the institutions as the methods employed won't yield valid, representative opinions about anything so there won't be any benefit to the forum members. The surveys are liable to be used to perpetuate unfounded views and prejudices about autism. The students need to understand that it is bad science and that they need to go away and study some more about statistics and scientific methods. They won't get any real facts from the survey, they will get a very limited set of opinions from a small set of people who don't statistically represent a broad and balanced view of life with autism.
It isn't a massive deal but there are real risks and genuine reasons why they should be encouraged to go away and learn to be better scientists.
