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Help the MADE by filling out a brief survey
by Jay OToole on 06/11/12 08:57:00 am Expert Blogs

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[REMINDER: Help the Museum of Digital Art and Entertainment (the MADE) by completing a brief survey. The survey is a part of my dissertation research on video game development. For each completed survey, I will be making a $5 donation to the MADE.]

I realize that when I sent my email invitation for my dissertation survey [more info here] you may have been getting ready for e3 in Los Angeles. I hope you had a fun and productive conference if you attended.

Last week, over 100 people filled out the survey and in doing so raised over $500 for the Museum of Digital Art and Entertainment (the MADE).

Please take a few moments and fill out my dissertation survey. To access the survey, please click the following link:

Take the Survey

Or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser.
https://buswisc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0kfa8cyQLPW8cgR

A couple reminders:

All data is held completely confidential.
A $5 donation will be made to the MADE for each completed survey.
I will be making a summary report of my research available to all individuals who participate.

I expect the survey to take about 15 minutes to complete. Thank you again for your willingness to help me with my research.

Jay O’Toole
Doctoral Candidate
University of Wisconsin-Madison
jotoole@bus.wisc.edu

Comments


R. Hunter Gough	11 Jun 2012 at 12:13 pm PST

This survey makes the naive assumption that each respondent has only founded ONE video game company. :)

I entered the names of several of the (now defunct) companies I've founded in the first field, which screwed up the subsequent questions. I'd recommend changing the wording to "what is the name of the first video game company you founded" or "what is the name of the most recent video game company you founded".


Jay OToole	11 Jun 2012 at 3:12 pm PST

The recommended wording change would have made more sense--good catch and suggestion. Unfortunately now that the survey I will have to wait until my next project to make the update. Despite the numerous reviews, edits, pilots, I missed that one--but good to know moving forward.

Still, I want to offer you the following link:

https://buswisc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bxAY2f2PnpMZhPu

If you are up for it (and I completely understand if you are not), please use this link to fill out the survey for as many companies as you founded. Note, I will make a $5 donation to the MADE for each company for which you answer the survey :)

For those concerned with potential bias in statistical significance testing that might be introduced due to non-independence of observation (Kenny, 1995), I will use robust standard error estimates (Lin & Wei, 1989) clustering around respondent id.

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Kenny, D. 1995. The effect of nonindependence on significance testing in dyadic research. Personal Relationships, 2(1): 67-75.

Lin, D., & Wei, L. 1989. The robust inference for the Cox proportional hazards model. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 84(408): 1074-1078.