Comments on: The trouble with Internet surveys http://fstutzman.com/2009/09/01/the-trouble-with-internet-surveys/ Thoughts about information, social networks, and privacy Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kevin R. Guidry http://fstutzman.com/2009/09/01/the-trouble-with-internet-surveys/comment-page-1/#comment-25620 Kevin R. Guidry Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:18:14 +0000 http://fstutzman.com/?p=1885#comment-25620 The relationship of these findings with "the Internet" is tenuous. One could say the same things about most surveys that have a self-selected and inherently biased sample. I know it's easy to dismiss some of the standards for academic research as mere snobbery but many of those standards exist for good reasons. Much "marketing research" would never be accepted by academics not (just) because we're snobs but because it's simply not very meaningful or useful. The relationship of these findings with “the Internet” is tenuous. One could say the same things about most surveys that have a self-selected and inherently biased sample.

I know it’s easy to dismiss some of the standards for academic research as mere snobbery but many of those standards exist for good reasons. Much “marketing research” would never be accepted by academics not (just) because we’re snobs but because it’s simply not very meaningful or useful.

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