Discussion (3) ¬

1. 
   Kayne

   May 15, 2009 at 1:50 pm | # | Reply

   Thank-you for putting your paper here to read. I found it very informative and thorough. That you were able to use your website and online connections to get such a wide response on the survey was incredible. You should be very proud, and expect a very high grade for this paper.

   It is ironic that a survey on criticism should have elicited such critical response from your respondents. I also find it ironic that the resulting paper should be waiting for a grade, essentially yet another critical opinion of it. I expect even here you will see many people’s opinions of it, posted for all to see… Yet even more critiques.

   It’s like you have entered a swirling vortex of un-ending criticism. It is indeed harder to create than destroy. Whatever your grade, whatever the response you get from your paper. You should be very proud of what you’ve accomplished.

   Well done!

   But of course, that’s just my opinion.

   • 
     Tom

     May 15, 2009 at 9:07 pm | # | Reply

     Kayne, thank you very much for the kind words on my paper.

     I hope my professor finds it as thorough as you did! 🙂
2. 
   Katie

   May 16, 2009 at 12:14 am | # | Reply

   I really enjoyed reading your paper. As a fellow grad student, I read a lot of journal articles and things of that ilk, but not much outside my immediate realm of study. I love that you used your readership to do a real piece of nice research. I agree that with some more sophisticated survey techniques and some fine-tuning in questions, you probably could have gotten more definitive answers for some things. However, I truly think that if you pared the paper down to its most interesting results (maybe with some stats?), that this could be publishable–not just a term paper. You’re getting your masters, so odds are you’ve already thought about this. I just wanted to add my two cents. And for the record, in biology, when people want to study human behavior they always use surveys. And the results are inevitably composed mostly of 20-something undergrads looking to make a buck. Your demographics are much more evenly distributed considering.
   Anyhow, next time you come up with an interesting piece of scholarship, please post it!~ 🙂