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Date:         Wed, 5 Mar 2003 21:07:40 -0600
Reply-To:     Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      fellow bus-ite needs a little help
Comments: To: Syncro@yahoogroups.com
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this fellow is a long time bus list member, having been on the vanagon list before it split up into the Type2 list and others. he posted this to the Type2 list and i asked him if he'd like it posted to the vanagon and syncro lists ... for a more diversified subject population. ;) so any help you could give would, i'm sure, be greatly appreciated. and when your wife/spouse/SO says you're crazy for having all those buses, you can honestly reply, "yes, but i'm seeing a shrink about it." ;) unca joel

> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 08:49:37 -0500 > From: Dan Henry <danhenry@indiana.edu> > Subject: Help a former list member get a Ph.D. > > Dear Folks: > > Some of you old-timers may remember me as a member of this list, >which I left, with some sorrow, after rolling my newly-restored >71 Station Wagon, Gumby the Wonderbus. I am completing my Ph.D. >at Indiana University, and I am engaged in a study of online >communities. > >Over the past year or so, with the permission of the admins, >I have been analyzing ten thousand or so messages to the list, >with an eye towards applying a psychological theory that >examines how a structured community or setting exists (or does >not exist) online. This theory, called Behavior Setting Theory, >has been widely studied in face-to-face settings, but has never >been applied in an organized way to an online setting, like the >Type 2 list. > > Although I can gather much information from the messages, >because the idea of the theory is to examine how physical >objects are related to how people behave, I need some more >information about that. I have decided to ask you, in the >form of a survey, for some data about that, as well as to >ask what you get out of the list by being a member. >I will make a copy of my findings available to anyone on the >list who wants to download it after I am done- it makes for >some pretty interesting reading, if I do say so myself. > > Some questions and answers: > > 1. So, where the heck is this survey anyway? > > You can find it at > http://www.indiana.edu/~spedk305/surveyIntro.htm > > 2. What kind of questions will I ask? > > They are pretty straightforward and clear, but you can always either not > answer a question or e-mail me for clarification. > > 3. Is this an elaborate plot to somehow send me SPAM? > > No, it is not. I will not ask you to enter your name, > e-mail address, or any other identifying information. > There is a study sheet on the first page of the site > that will explain the details of the study more fully, > as well as the anonymous nature of the survey. > > 4. How long will you be collecting information? > > Because all good things must come to an end, including, > mercifully, this dissertation, I am hoping to have enough > data from you folks by the end of March. > > Thank you from the bottom of my (formerly) oil-leaking heart > for helping me out in this endeavor. You will be making a > real contribution to the field of educational psychology > and to a better understanding of how lists like this > organize themselves and function. > > Dan Henry


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