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Sunday, June 14, 2009
Survey at Dhoby Ghaut
Yu Pei
Spot where we did our suvey
Donovan approaching someone to complete a survey form
Yesterday morning, we met up at Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station so that we could do our survey. The questions of the survey were created by Jeremy and I printed out many copies of the survey forms the night before. The purpose of the survey is to determine how much the general public of Singapore understands about Parkinson’s disease and there were questions like ‘Can Parkinson’s disease be inherited?’ After wandering around the place outside the MRT station for a short while, we found a suitable spot for us to conduct our survey as it is filled with by-passers and crowds who were there to look at mobile phone exhibitions for Filipinos.
When we started to go about conducting the survey, we were rather apprehensive and reluctant to approach strangers due to obvious reasons. However, Vernon managed to pluck up his courage and did a demonstration for us, and after that we were a lot more easygoing about approaching strangers. Each of the 4 of us got a handful of people to help us to complete the survey forms. Luckily for me, many of the people I approached were willing to complete a form. Together, the 4 of us managed to get nearly 100 forms done within about 3 hours.
Besides doing our part for the project itself, we also gained invaluable experience in that Saturday and it is also my first time approaching strangers for a survey. Although we got a satisfactory number of survey forms done, we could have done it in an even shorter period if not for the period of hesitance in the beginning. The results of the surveys will be posted up soon.
Yu Pei
Spot where we did our suvey
Donovan approaching someone to complete a survey form
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Physical and Online Survey
For our physical survey, we went to the Dhoby Ghaut MRT station to conduct the survey. Our aim was to get 100 surveys completed. Initally, it was really tough as we were quite reserved and afraid to approach strangers, and we also met people who did not wish to participate in our survey. It was quite disappointing, however we also knew that we had to be thick-skinned in a way and go all out. That is what our task requires of us. If we were to remain that timid, we will never be able to do the survey well.
We then went to the busiest places where the human traffic flow was the greatest, particularly because that day was a weekend and it was during lunch hour. We were successful in the first few rounds. It was a boost to our morale. We felt more confident and more assured. We split up into teams of two, each team going to various ends of the location. Vernon and I were surveying people nearer the entrance of the MRT and the bus stop. I actually felt quite awkward when people start staring at us, and some even asked us for our schools as though they did not believe we were students doing our project. Some more difficulties we encountered were that people were rushing to get to their destination, either they were boarding the bus, or for those who got off the bus, they were heading for elsewhere. We had to convince them that it would not take long and that it was okay if they did not know about the disease. I guess they were probably shy and hoping that they need not take the survey. Fortunately, after about two hours, we were able to complete our share of the survey, however slightly short of our target of 100.
The online survey was done through surveymoneky.com. It was designed as a simple eight multiple choice question which would not require a long time to be completed. We were constantly messaging our MSN contacts, as well as indicating the url of the survey as our personal message so that our friends and relatives were able to help us with our survey. In all, we had about 93 participants for our online survey
Jeremy
For our physical survey, we went to the Dhoby Ghaut MRT station to conduct the survey. Our aim was to get 100 surveys completed. Initally, it was really tough as we were quite reserved and afraid to approach strangers, and we also met people who did not wish to participate in our survey. It was quite disappointing, however we also knew that we had to be thick-skinned in a way and go all out. That is what our task requires of us. If we were to remain that timid, we will never be able to do the survey well.
We then went to the busiest places where the human traffic flow was the greatest, particularly because that day was a weekend and it was during lunch hour. We were successful in the first few rounds. It was a boost to our morale. We felt more confident and more assured. We split up into teams of two, each team going to various ends of the location. Vernon and I were surveying people nearer the entrance of the MRT and the bus stop. I actually felt quite awkward when people start staring at us, and some even asked us for our schools as though they did not believe we were students doing our project. Some more difficulties we encountered were that people were rushing to get to their destination, either they were boarding the bus, or for those who got off the bus, they were heading for elsewhere. We had to convince them that it would not take long and that it was okay if they did not know about the disease. I guess they were probably shy and hoping that they need not take the survey. Fortunately, after about two hours, we were able to complete our share of the survey, however slightly short of our target of 100.
The online survey was done through surveymoneky.com. It was designed as a simple eight multiple choice question which would not require a long time to be completed. We were constantly messaging our MSN contacts, as well as indicating the url of the survey as our personal message so that our friends and relatives were able to help us with our survey. In all, we had about 93 participants for our online survey
Jeremy