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An interesting opportunity
« on: March 17, 2010, 05:28:45 PM »
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I received your email address from thefurryforum.com.

My name is Elyse and I am a Psychology student at the University of Hawaii.  For class, we have to do studies to then present to class.  I looked into the Development and Validation of the Attitudes about Sadomasochism Scale, which looked into how the general public perceived Sadomasochism.

For my survey, I adapted the questions from this scale, but changed it to Furry.  I am interested in seeing how the general public perceives being a Furry as well as how people's preconceived notions of certain terms determine their beliefs toward a group of people.

My survey link is http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H6RPJFJ

I was wondering if you could either post this on your site for a couple of weeks, since I have to present to my class at the end of March, or if you have any suggestions for where to post this.

Also, because of the time constraints for my survey, I am not able to ask as many questions as I wish I could but I want to definitely want to include the opinions of Furries in this study as well in order to compare answers.

Thank you in advance for your assistance,

Elyse

I received the above email today and thought you may be interested in helping Elyse with her studies. Please take a minute or two to complete the survey linked. No personal information is required.
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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2010, 05:38:07 PM »
OK so I took the quiz and I didn't totally agree with with the definition and one of those questions made it just seem all sexual pluses I don't like how some of them are worded so it will make the answer a little off and could be taken the wrong way
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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2010, 06:18:13 PM »
I have to agree with Sain on that. Plus, some of the questions are far too generic and assume stereotypes of sexual desires.

However, I will help this by posting it on another furry website to help it along. On a side note, you should let Elyse know about some of the input we give on this.

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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2010, 07:17:16 PM »
The survey was alright, nothing in particular I can complain about x.x
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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2010, 07:47:02 PM »
Yeah this survey does make assumptions. I mean the definition itself is narrow, saying that furries can ONLY be role players or sexual fetishists. It's not blatant in its narrow ideas, but can be seen as a more subconscious assumption and can therefore skew the results. it is scientifically unsound.
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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2010, 09:25:57 PM »
I think our Survey giver could use some basic research on furries before writing another survey for them

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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2010, 09:30:09 PM »
I think it should of been a q and a not a servey
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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2010, 09:58:56 PM »
"Furry activity should be legal, as long as all participants are consenting adults."

BUH? Activity like drawing, making costumes, going to cons and collecting comics? I put down neither agree nor disagree since there was not an option to skip the question.
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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2010, 11:11:58 PM »
"Furry activity should be legal, as long as all participants are consenting adults."

BUH? Activity like drawing, making costumes, going to cons and collecting comics? I put down neither agree nor disagree since there was not an option to skip the question.

read our other posts and figure it out.

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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2010, 11:14:02 PM »
I did the same
"Furry activity should be legal, as long as all participants are consenting adults."

BUH? Activity like drawing, making costumes, going to cons and collecting comics? I put down neither agree nor disagree since there was not an option to skip the question.
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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2010, 11:43:06 PM »
i did the survey

the results are my own and I don't feel the need to share them.
However before you ask, no i didn't put anything down against the Furry rep.

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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2010, 11:51:33 PM »
hmm that was an odd survey. I didnt quite understand all of it..... I too agree with sain. The definition didn't really describe the bases of a furry.
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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2010, 04:14:17 AM »
An odd survey indeed. If its to help out for something important, I am willing to help. I took the survey so I hope it helped  ^_^
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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #13 on: March 18, 2010, 04:18:29 AM »
i did the survey

the results are my own and I don't feel the need to share them.
However before you ask, no i didn't put anything down against the Furry rep.

I doubt that any of us thought you would do that..... unless <.< Your an undercover ninja troll D:
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Re: An interesting opportunity
« Reply #14 on: March 18, 2010, 04:44:30 AM »
Any chance the person who created the survey is asking these questions because she is looking for specific results? *picks apart the methodology* Ooo! Fun!
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