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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This forum rule does not stop you from participating in research. I think that if you go to http://researchautism.net/ you will find ways to participate.
If you think there are no hazards in such questionnaires then consider a psychology student who posts a survey, finds some results and then recalls and applies their findings through the next 40 years of dealing with autistic people and their families. They believed that the survey was scientifically valid but actually it was half baked with inadequate sample sizes from a skewed sample of people who happened upon the forum on a wet Monday evening? Can you see the problem with that?
This forum rule does not stop you from participating in research. I think that if you go to http://researchautism.net/ you will find ways to participate.
If you think there are no hazards in such questionnaires then consider a psychology student who posts a survey, finds some results and then recalls and applies their findings through the next 40 years of dealing with autistic people and their families. They believed that the survey was scientifically valid but actually it was half baked with inadequate sample sizes from a skewed sample of people who happened upon the forum on a wet Monday evening? Can you see the problem with that?
