Dear Nanna,
In your original reply to my comments on the survey you wrote:
"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?"
I answered your "it might be put together by a Phd student" in my previous post: it clearly was not issued by a PhD student.
It certainly does "matter how poorly designed and un-scientific" a survey is. Before anyone attempts to use a survey as a research tool they need to have studied or been taught how to compose, conduct and analyse them - there is no excuse; no supervisor should allow a student to issue such a poor survey, and there should be no need for kindly guidance from others after such a wretched survey has been issued. We are supposed to be researchers here, working at PhD level.
If the survey authors had posted a request for preliminary advice about conducting research on expertise on design, then I am sure that they would have received much good advice on this list. On reflection, I can only come to the conclusion that this 'Call for participation' and the survey itself was a hoax, to see how many apparently well-informed subscribers to lists such as this would actually complete it in good faith, even compliment the authors on their work, and then waste more time discussing it!
Best wishes,
Nigel Cross
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