CFI thesis survey

[Amish RakeFight]

Just took it.

 

[harrier]

Yeah, it can be hard to write questions that don't lead the survey taker too much but are still clear enough to get the question you want. And I had to use a tiny amount of practice testers to leave enough for the final test since finding participants is so difficult. There are a few questions that have had several comments and will probably simply be removed and/or mentioned but not used to support/disprove the hypothesis. I'm not concerned with proving my hypothesis correct, I'm just excited to see what everyone thinks. If my hypothesis is wrong, cool! Either way,it's insight into the community! The final comments have been really interesting as well. Once the survey closes, I'll come back here about the questions. Who knows, maybe some professionals will like the study and try it again with professional writers and actual funding! haha

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Yeah, it can be hard to write questions that don't lead the survey taker too much but are still clear enough to get the question you want. And I had to use a tiny amount of practice testers to leave enough for the final test since finding participants is so difficult. There are a few questions that have had several comments and will probably simply be removed and/or mentioned but not used to support/disprove the hypothesis. I'm not concerned with proving my hypothesis correct, I'm just excited to see what everyone thinks. If my hypothesis is wrong, cool! Either way,it's insight into the community! The final comments have been really interesting as well. Once the survey closes, I'll come back here about the questions. Who knows, maybe some professionals will like the study and try it again with professional writers and actual funding! haha

I did something similar (developing a welfare questionaire) in my sociological statistics course. It was a hoot to formulate questions absent of bias and steering.

Hope more folks participate in your survey.

Have you tried some of the other pilot forums around the web?

 

[harrier]

Hoot is one word for it I posted it in a few places, but the interesting thing is the majority of the test takers seem to come from NAFI Mentor and here. If you think of any good forums, feel free to let me know. I did a few yahoo groups that I'm a member of, a few google/news groups, myspace (which is where three of the most negative comments came from, coincidence? hehe), and AOPA's message board. I may have to send out mailers to flight schools, but the cost vs. results isn't great for that kind of thing.

 

[Andrew_VT]

Try JetCareers.com they have an awesome pilot community over there

 

[harrier]

WELL the final results are in! I posted the paper at http://cfistudy.com It turned out very interested. The comments are the most interesting (located in Appendix D if I remember correctly of the paper). NOW I take ze nap.