Course talk:PSYC305/2013ST2/ClassProject/3.3.1 Method - Procedure - Question Development

Briefly describe the procedure we used to develop the original list of questions.

Hi All,

Regarding the Results: Gender Differences data page and question development:

I just wanted to make a suggestion about interpreting the data. I wonder if it may help to classify the responses into subcategories, that is, questions/responses that are not specifically “big five” responses, or that may help us relate/categorize the responses in terms of “big five” responses.

I hope this is in line with our inquiry: I am proposing a sub-category list of the following in order to see if there are any trends on each these categories that indicate significant gender differences between respondent self-report.

While we originally had focus on activities/ hobbies and occupation, as I look over the list I see categories for:

1) activities/hobbies (ex. football, watching talk shows) 2) inter-relationship issues and preferences (ex. Romantic/ sexual preferences) 3) occupational preferences (ex. automobile mechanic, kindergarten teacher) 4) behavior and affect (ex. aggressive, hiding in scary movie)

Some of the questions could be placed in one or another of the subcategories. I quickly tabulated a list that places the questions in the categories that I see (subjectively!) and came up with numbers of questions in each of the above subcategories:

1) activities/hobbies (ex. football, watching talk shows) (12) 2) inter-relationship issues and preferences (ex. Romantic/ sexual preferences) (17) 3) occupational preferences (ex. automobile mechanic, kindergarten teacher) (5) 4) behavior and affect (ex. aggressive, hiding in scary movie) (5)

If nothing else this produces a relative weighting of question types that may be worth noting in our survey/question subheadings.

Please let me know what you all think! Is it worthwhile noting this in the paper? Can we make any correlations about the number/types of questions we came up with and the ratio of females to males in the class?

Cheers Kevin

Hi Kevin, this looks like a good observation. We don't have any statistical evidence for these different subcategories. I still think it might be good to note, probably in the discussion section, that our final scale seemed to include these different types of items.

What do other people think? Do you agree with Kevin's subcategories?

I think this sounds good, how is the progress on it? I think it is definitiley worth noting if I read that correctly because there are many more questions for hobbies and preferences vs. behaviour

Would someone like to add a note about this in the discussion section? It would be great to have another hand put this in!

HI Kevin,

Yes I can add that into the discussion page. Should I just mention that the topics regarding occupation, activities/hobbies, etc. how these categories are weighted differently in the survey?

should i add this in advice to future research? not in results correct?

Please check my latest post regarding this and maybe go over what I have done to edit it and do a final edit? I think this page is done now

Hi everyone,

So I added in the wiki information on how the questionnaire was decided as suggested by Dr. Veale. I also included the format the questions appear in the questionnaire and the number of questions that were in the final survey. This is added in as the third paragraph. If someone would like to read over it to check for grammar errors I missed or to make sure the tense is all the same (I used past tense in the third paragraph is this correct?) I also combined some of the first pargraph to the final paragraph as it was repeating itself with talking about the lack of communicating during editing of the survey. I think this page is done if I didnt over look any grammar errors! Let me know your thoughts.

I also in my third paragraph included a reference to (Gratton and Jones, 2003) I will put in final citations, this was due to information on the type of questions that we used regarding the format.

cheers

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I've fixed all of the grammar and spelling problems that I could find, and omitted some words so that things would sound smoother. As I said in the discussion for the "Survey" page, I think this page should focus more on just the development process of questions, so I think information from the third paragraph would be better suited to be in the "Survey" page.

Yes I combined third paragraph in to this page and also looked over grammar! think this is good to go! I also mentioned this in the disucssion on previous method page.

I noticed that in the first paragraph, Lippa is cited. Should Connelly be cited along with Lippa as well, or is that citation correct as it is?

Hi all, I've added my subjective impression of how the questions were formulated; please correct me or remind me if any othe instructions were given, or if any of you had a different idea about how you came up with questions. cheers Kevin

Thanks for starting this page Kevin. Nice work. I just added a bit about how we were provided articles to help us create questions that discriminate "male-like" and "female-like" occupations/hobbies. Let me me know what you think. Feel free to edit/delete!

Yes thanks and good catch Amanda re the articles! Looks great.

no worries! glad you don't mind the addition.

On Dr. Veale's suggestion I cut and pasted two short paragraphs from the Survey section and put them here.

I think this section is looking very good. The only other things I can think to mention is that wiki software was used to develop the questions and also give the total number of questions that were developed.