RESULTS now Posted-----Writing Dissertation on Competition in IT--need IT Pro's to fill in short survey (6 min)--PLEASE help if you can

[scottalanmiller]

LOL...

Problems with surveys like this.... what we already know about the IT field is that most IT Pros that we encounter cannot identify a reseller. So a question like this provides meaningless results because you don't know if they know what you mean.

[scottalanmiller]

Top three? Some would define this as the best three. Others as the three that make the most money. Others as the three that are best known. You need to refine this question, I definitely only choose from the best, but never from the biggest. So anyone answering this question has to guess at what you mean and the answer could be randomized.

[scottalanmiller]

Just finished the poll.

[nadnerB]

Done

[JPLS]

@scottalanmiller
Thanks for the feedback--very helpful. Unfortunately I can't adjust the questions at this point in order to maintain the integrity of whole survey. But I will keep that in mind and list that in the limitations of my study. Many thanks.

[JPLS]

Thanks very much to everyone who has filled this out.
Much appreciated!

[scottalanmiller]

@JPLS said in Writing Dissertation on Competition in IT--need IT Pro's to fill in short survey (6 min)--PLEASE help if you can:

@scottalanmiller
Thanks for the feedback--very helpful. Unfortunately I can't adjust the questions at this point in order to maintain the integrity of whole survey. But I will keep that in mind and list that in the limitations of my study. Many thanks.

IT Polls are often like this. It's a major problem in the industry, the amount of industry knowledge needed to make a poll often means you already have better insight than the poll can provide anyway. Polls rely on people being honest, knowing themselves (things that people are very bad at) and everyone agreeing on the questions' intent or meaning. Some people answer literally, some assume you meant something that wasn't said, etc.

[dafyre]

It would be nice to see the results of the poll after you are done with it.

[JPLS]

@dafyre
yeah I can make the data available--no problem

[scottalanmiller]

@JPLS said in Writing Dissertation on Competition in IT--need IT Pro's to fill in short survey (6 min)--PLEASE help if you can:

@dafyre
yeah I can make the data available--no problem

Awesome, thanks.

[JPLS]

Thanks to all those who participated in this survey. Your help was much appreciated and gave me a great deal of good data to analyse for my paper.
Sorry it has taken me so long to get back here to post my results, but here they are.
Thanks again.
John

[scottalanmiller]

Hey, thanks for circling back

[Deleted74295]

@JPLS - Are there any further stats such as location? Number of submitters? etc.

[JPLS]

@Breffni-Potter
there were 34 participants (not all from this site--I think it was close to half from this site)
no location data as the survey was anonymous