Help Re do her thesis!

Discussion in 'General Chatter' started by Re Allyssa, Mar 27, 2016.

  1. Re Allyssa

    Re Allyssa Sylph of Heart

    Hey there! If you didn't see in the languages/linguistics thread, I am doing a linguistic thesis!
    And for my thesis, I'm doing a survey to collect data.

    If you'd be willing to help me out, that would be great!
    The survey should take between 10-15 minutes and you're just expected to make some judgements about how the speaker/author feels about the situation in the sentence.

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    Here is a link to the survey.

    Thanks so much for helping me out!

    Edit: If any of you wanna talk more in depth about the survey after taking it (if you're going to take it) feel free to PM me. It's probably better than posting on here with spoilers. xD
     
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  2. Astrodynamicist

    Astrodynamicist Adequate Potato Goblin

    when would we need to fill it out by?
     
  3. Kaylotta

    Kaylotta Writer Trash

    Just fyi
    none of your sentences have punctuation. is that intentional? 'cause it seriously affected my potential answers...
     
  4. Re Allyssa

    Re Allyssa Sylph of Heart

    Asap? I'll leave up for a day or two though...
    Also, if you took the practice one a few weeks ago, don't retake it xD

    @Kaylotta
    yup it was intentional. It looked really weird with punctuation.
     
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  5. Everett

    Everett local rats so small, so tiny

    I filled it out, although I realize in retrospect I messed up a few of my answers due to not paying close enough attention to what I was clicking.
    For example, I marked D8 as not happy, but then I didn't realize that I also marked it as "not upset" until I moved onto the next page. I meant to put it on "more upset" side but my brain was like, the reaction is negative therefore it goes on the left hand side.

    Also, I wasn't always sure how to interpret "sincere". In retrospect it's kinda obvious that it was "this person's using a smiley face but are they actually happy?" but sometimes I thought it might mean, "this person's using a smiley face, are they being sarcastic and there aren't really squirrels in the yard?". Not sure why, maybe just my autistic self being wigged out by surveys.
     
  6. Re Allyssa

    Re Allyssa Sylph of Heart

    Don't worry about it too much, I'm sure it's fine ^^
     
  7. Kaylotta

    Kaylotta Writer Trash

    um. There were emoji in the sentences? I did not see any...

    EDIT: wtf. I just opened the survey on my phone and suddenly there are emoji. I was SO CONFUSED. Re, do you want me to take it again? My answers would be COMPLETELY different...
     
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  8. budgie

    budgie not actually a bird

    I think something screwed up on my end...

    I didn't get any emoticons? I'm not sure if it's my adblock or another extension or what, but it was all plain sentences with no periods or emoticons. I thought it was weird and that maybe you were setting a baseline for reactions. Anyway, I had all middle-of-the-road for happy, all not upset, and all sincere. You should probably drop mine from the results.

    oh thank goodness I'm not alone. For the record, the main extension I think could have interfered is adblock, and I'm running chrome on Win10
     
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  9. Secret Squirrel

    Secret Squirrel certainly something

    I took it! :)

    the emoticons were supposed to be just text based smiles like :) and D8 right?
     
  10. Re Allyssa

    Re Allyssa Sylph of Heart

    There was a control condition. so some of you didn't get emoticons.

    @Avery yes
     
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  11. Re Allyssa

    Re Allyssa Sylph of Heart

    Honestly, this is probably not the best survey. I've never done anything like this before, and I've gotten as much help as I can but I still doubt whether it'll actually mean anything. But it seems to be good enough for my advisor so I'm going with it. xP

    I really appreciate everyone's help though!! Sorry it's so confusing.
     
  12. budgie

    budgie not actually a bird

    I rate this statement slightly on the happy side, not upset at all, sincere, and not silly.
     
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  13. EulersBidentity

    EulersBidentity e^i*[bi] + 1

    Part of the way thru! I haven't read anyone's spoilers so apologies if someone's already brought this up, but my distractable ass would really appreciate a progress bar...not that there's anything to be done about that, but just FYI.

    Edit: oh okay I was on the last question :P xD x)
     
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  14. Re Allyssa

    Re Allyssa Sylph of Heart

    I think I added a progress bar now. Should've had that before.
     
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  15. rats

    rats 21 Bright Forge Shatters The Void

    did it!! very neat, im interested in hearing about some of the results :O am a little confused that there werent more sad emoticons, though
     
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  16. Re Allyssa

    Re Allyssa Sylph of Heart

    If any of you wanna talk more in depth about the survey after taking it (if you're going to take it) feel free to PM me. It's probably better than posting on here with spoilers. xD
     
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