Yup, the results are finally recorded. Everything has been tabulated by the certified public accounting firm of Price-Is-Right, Namby, & Pamby. I know what you’re thinking. “What in the world of CPAs are you typing about?” Well, sentence-with-ending-preposition person, a survey was recently conducted and the results were just reported for your amusement.
SURVEY PURPOSE
One hundred college professors across this vast wasteland with a few cities sprinkled in for change of scenery were surveyed on their favorite 2010 Winter Olympic events in Vancouver. This is kind of an academic version of the popular TV game show “Family Feud,” just without the family, the feud, and the game.
RESEARCH STANDARDS
For those of you who are quantitative researchers, the technical aspects of this survey study are described below to allay any concerns you might have about its quality. The rest of you probably don’t care because you know of my incessant longing to write fictional, humorous blogs.
SURVEY DESIGN
Here are the steps in the execution of the study:
1. The sample was nonrandomly and wildly selected from the subscriber list of The Chronicle of Higher Education to yield an unrepresentative, biased collection of professors.
2. The survey was administered online by MonkeySee-MonkeyDo.com to maintain anonymity with a 24-hr response window (Is there any other?).
3. Faculty members only were asked one question: “Have you renewed your subscription to The Chronicle?” Wait, that wasn’t the question. It was: “What are your 3 favorite events you have watched during this 1st week of the Vancouver Olympics? (If you haven’t seen anything, wing it.)”
4. Respondents clicked their 3 faves from a list of all events to avoid spelling errors with words such as loogy, kurling, slalhom, moogles, and bathalonlon.
5. Based on an overall response rate of 39% (similar to my anticipated approval rating for this blog), frequency distributions of all events were computed. (Note: Stat has to be included somewhere here, right?)
6. The top 10 events were identified so they could be presented because I’m running out of blog material.
OOPS! I’ve just exceeded my word limit. The Top 10 will be presented tomorrow. Sorry. The bylaws of bloggering tell us not to exceed 300 words or we can be smacked by the owner of this network.
I bet you’re really excited. You don't want to miss this list. I've probably spent more than 5 minutes writing it.
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