Dear Nigel,

First of all I truly appreciate your comments. You are right; unfortunately
I overlooked the comments and discussions of the previous case. Just after
posting my email I saw the whole discussion and it was too late. It was my
mistake.

Secondly I have noticed that this is not the right place to share such a
call. As you might notice, although I am an old member of the list I am not
very active in putting comments or sharing something, I rather prefer to
follow, and honestly I am learning a lot from this list. I can sincerely
say; I didn’t consider that it would be inappropriate to share this call
through PhD Design list. It is obvious that I was wrong. Therefore, I am
sorry for any inconvenience from the list members.

On the other hand, thank you for the comments. As mentioned previously the
study is a multi disciplinary research and it is in an early stage so any
comments will be mostly welcomed to handle a better research.  We are all
well aware of the difficulties of designing these kinds of surveys so it is
always better to get more opinions and suggestions.

In that sense, I have taken my notes according to your comments and
critiques. On the other hand, this has been an experience, sometimes we are
learning by doing mistakes. As I have mentioned above when I noticed the
discussions on the other case it was already too late and unfortunately it
was not possible to withdraw my email.

Many thanks again for your comments.

Kind Regards,

Osman Demirbas PhD
Sent from my iPhone

On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 at 16:27, Nigel Cross <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Oh dear, here we go again.
> Dear Osman,
> First, I cannot understand why you think it appropriate to send such a
> 'call for participation' to the PhD Design list. I cannot see how your call
> contributes in any way to discussion of PhD studies and related research.
> The list is not intended as an easily-accessible, rough-and-ready source of
> free, random volunteers for surveys tenuously connected to any design topic.
> Second, it seems you have not read the recent discussion on another survey
> - the 'call for participation on international survey on design expertise'
> and related posts on Marketing Mail. If you had, you might have desisted
> from sending this one.
> Third, yours is another example of very poorly designed, un-scientific
> survey work that does not match expectations of PhD work. Sample questions
> include asking for responses to "My boat is sensitively designed for my
> emotions", "Yacht interior should be as comfortable as a house", "I prefer
> highly decorated and glossy interiors". That hardly seems to constitute
> serious design studies; it's not even a serious marketing study. It is also
> not making any contribution to "human orientated" or "user centred design",
> as you claim, when it asks for responses to questions such as "Private
> areas for crew should be as small as possible" (although phrased in the
> survey as "as possible as small", so not even English has been checked) and
> "I don't want to see any crew member during sailing/anchored if not
> necessary". So the largest group of users, the crew/workers on the boat,
> are not only excluded from the survey, but regarded as a (necessary)
> nuisance.
> Fourth, to return to the appropriateness of mailing this to the PhD Design
> list, my assumption would be that most subscribers to the list are PhD
> students and academics tutoring and supervising such research. I doubt that
> the great majority of them are "users" of mega-yachts (except perhaps as
> short-term crew), and certainly not the oligarch and billionaire mega-yacht
> owners to whom the survey is addressed.
> Yours in sorrow,
> Nigel Cross
>
>
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