Hi folks,
 
I've been wondering whether to start a thread on this, but as Giles has said something, here goes...
 
There are plenty of interesting issues touched upon during this survey. However, I found many of the questions, and permissable responses, at least slightly unsatisfactory.
 
I wanted to be able to say "but...", or "it depends what you mean..." alongside most answers. As a result, most of what I felt to be potnetially most useful in my responses was not captured by the survey.
 
You could argue that this is not important: it's part of the nature of multiple choice surveys. However, I think this was a significant issue in this particular case. Even a final box where comments relating to omissions, methodologies, or qualifications to responses could be provided would have been very helpful. Data gathering excercises like this need a degree of self-awareness as to their scope, and I found that this survey format was not very clear on this.
 
Cheers
 
John
 
PS Jane: I imagine you will see this response. I hope I'm not being unfair in raising this on this forum. However, I do think that public consultation exercises benefit from public, rather than private discussion about their scope and approach, and these are important and intersting questions. Hence this message...
 
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From: The Geological Curator's Group mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Giles Miller
Sent: 11 June 2012 10:19
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Subject: Re: MRes Questionnaire: Attitudes to Geological Collections



Thanks for forwarding that Mike. It touches on a couple of issues that I have recently blogged about:

 

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/micropalaeo/2012/05/30/how-much-is-a-microfossil-worth

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/micropalaeo/2012/05/01/hurrah-for-surrogate-loans

 

Jane it would be really interesting to see your results. Are you going to publish them?

 

All the best,

 

Giles

 

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From: The Geological Curator's Group mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Howe, Michael P.A.
Sent: 06 June 2012 13:50
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Subject: MRes Questionnaire: Attitudes to Geological Collections

 

I have been asked by Jane Robb of University College, London, to post details of a survey on the values associated with geological collections. Please have a look.

 

Thanks,

 

Mike Howe

Chair, GCG

 

 

 

"

As part of my MRes Heritage Science dissertation on values associated with geological collections I have designed and disseminated this questionnaire: 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/geoattitudes

 

I would be grateful if you could take five minutes to complete the questionnaire on values associated with geological collections. A more detailed description of my MRes project and its aims is included in the questionnaire itself. 

 

To increase the volume of responses, further dissemination of the questionnaire would be appreciated. If you know of other geoscientists or other professionals who are familiar with the use of geological collections then please forward this email. If possible, notifying GCG members about the presence of this questionnaire would be extremely useful. 

 

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to get in touch with myself or my supervisors, whose contact details are provided in the questionnaire. 

 

Yours sincerely, 

Jane Robb

 

MRes Heritage Science Student

Centre for Sustainable Heritage

Bartlett School of Graduate Studies

University College London

Take a look at my Blog at:

http://geoheritagescience.wordpress.com/

Or visit my LinkedIn profile:

http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/jane-robb/48/392/275 <http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/jane-robb/48/392/275> 

Twitter: @JLizRob

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