Dear Terance
I do not doubt the merits of the critique raised - and many, very constructive, points have been raised by several of the responses since - very useful!
It was only the post by Nigel Cross which said “this is poorly designed and unscientific” that I thought was harshly worded, and did not provide useful feedback. I am not only thinking about the people that sent out the survey, but also the many PhD students that follow this list and may not feel awfully encouraged to participate in discussions or ask for help if that is the tone they can expect to be answered with.
All the best, Nanna
> On 16 Jun 2018, at 03.03, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi Nanna,
>
> Here in Australia, PhD student surveys have to be approved by an ethics
> committee who review it for weaknesses. It seems that this survey went out
> without such expert oversight.
>
> In fact it was released by Prof. Hernan Casakin and Prof. Vishal Singh to
> many more lists than phd-design (I got it on several jiscmail lists
> including engineering [log in to unmask]) and Hernan claims it is by '... *
> a team of academics and researchers* working in the area of design, who are
> currently carrying out an international online survey about design
> expertise.'
>
> It is reasonable to be critical and transparent about such criticism as a
> example for PhD students (and supervisors).
>
> Regards,
> Terry
>
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> Best wishes,
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Nanna Inie
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> Subject: Re: - Call for participation in International survey on Design
> expertise
>
> No matter how poorly designed and un-scientific, I personally believe
> criticism could be a little more constructive if you wish to provide
> feedback. This might be put together by a PhD student trying to learn how to
> commit science, and there is no reason to be harsh without also suggesting
> ways of improving. Are we not here to help each other?
>
> Best,
> Nanna (who also once did an online survey and learned a ton from it)
>
>> On 13 Jun 2018, at 17.18, Nigel Cross <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> This survey is very poorly designed, un-scientific and randomly
> distributed. Results cannot be usable in any way to contribute to design
> science or to understanding design expertise.
>>
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