A survey and a storm

Did it.

Sent the questionnaire to my sup.  It’s Jurassic.  Almost 100 items.   Don’t know how the length will affect the data gathered, but I’m kind of excited.  I hope my sup gives the go-signal as my research assistant will be administering the surveys in one week’s time.

This is going to be an unabashedly unintellectual blog as my mind is preoccupied with the upcoming super typhoon coming on the wake of the recent catastrophic Ondoy, which flooded the entire Metro Manila.

But I read the first part of Eli Gottlieb’s dissertation, and it’s really quite provocative.

All for now.  Keeping my fingers crossed as much about my survey questionnaire as the brewing storm.

Scholarship and a storm

I met with my supervisor yesterday morning at the library cafe, which never opened.  The library was virtually deserted, but that meant we were better able to discuss my research.  Our discussion focused on the instrument that I’m fine-tuning, and we agreed that I would stick to the original instruments as much as possible so as not to invite unnecessary questions.  Also, he encouraged “greed” in the data collection–i.e., get as much data as possible and just sort them out later.

So my formerly four-part survey has morphed into a monstrous five-part survey with about 85 questions.  Argh.  But here are the sections so far: