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Gardener Actions Survey

ryan.b.hennessyryan.b.hennessy Posts: 6
in Wildlife gardening
Hi Gardeners.
I would like to hear how and for which reasons you maintain your garden in its current state.

https://gardenthesis.limesurvey.net/718149?lang=en

Please follow the link, the survey takes 10-15 minutes to complete. The survey closes on 14.09.2023.

I have personally created the survey.
It is anonymous, and is NOT spam. You will receive no further communication.

Your answers will form the basis for my Bachelor thesis about current gardener actions and the potential to increase biodiversity in residential gardens.

Many thanks for your important responses.
Ryan
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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I added this in the footnote at the end.

    ” How nice to read a survey that is so articulate and so well structured. Good luck with your dissertation. One thing does slightly baffle me. Surveys almost always include questions about age and gender, sometimes social status, income and ethnicity too. I do wonder if the responses from non binary folk, for example, differ from males. I’m not questioning the validity of your research, just mulling over whether statistically significant differences emerge.”

    If you have any comments to make I’d be interested to hear back from you. And memories of chi squared testing techniques learned at university but long since ebbed away are starting to drift back into my consciousness!
    Rutland, England
  • ryan.b.hennessyryan.b.hennessy Posts: 6
    Hey! Big thanks for the comment. 

    I wasn’t going to include sex and age, but did after receiving advice from my professor. 
    When dealing with human behaviour they are two very simple variables that potentially can influence a later variable.
    Will be interesting to see what the data shows me.
    Thanks again
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    Hi Ryan,

    I've completed the survey ... best wishes for your studies.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Interesting survey.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • janetfossjanetfoss Posts: 303
    Yes, I thought so too. Well done @ryan.b.hennessy.
    Bumping up.
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    I'd hoped to contact Ryan after doing the survey but found I'd lost the email address he gave. I emailed the University to get him to contact me - but they've never heard of him?
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Probably the best survey we've been asked to contribute too.
    Very professional.


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Yes, I agree. When people post rubbish surveys maybe send a link to this one to show them how it is done.
  • ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
    Well, I've had a look at page one but am not sure I can answer some of the qus, eg measurements for area that is permeable.  
  • ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
    nick615 said:
    I'd hoped to contact Ryan after doing the survey but found I'd lost the email address he gave. I emailed the University to get him to contact me - but they've never heard of him?
    That seems odd! 
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