the report

3.0 Survey Overview

I will begin by noting that my statistics training consists of anything I picked up in high school, and one university course many many moons ago. Oh, and we did learn a bit in our Product Design class about writing evaluation questions. But other than that I'm not much more than a girl with a dream... to gather data. Most certainly I am not a quiz specialist, if you were one I'm sure you could point out a flaw or few.

I created the survey with the following goals:

  • Gather data about people who fit this demographic: use the Internet, hopefully use Facebook or at least browsing/email etc
  • Cross reference this with information about their overall computer knowledge, in order to determine profiles of people's behavior
  • Extrapolate any points found, speculate on what could be the cause using my own personal experience as a Facebook user
  • Use the survey itself as an example of transmission through the social networking web
  • Get enough data to make a number of pretty pie and bar charts with fancy labels and colors and all that jazz

I discovered another result, found while analyzing the data of computer knowledge/Internet tasks. This is talked about more in the report.

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