Help with my Master's Thesis

My name is Gene DiPaula and I am a graduate student in the Department
of Mass Communication and Communication Studies at Towson University.
As part of the research for my master's thesis, I am conducting a
survey to determine how people feel about their favorite professional
athletes. If you choose to participate in my project, you will be
asked to complete a short survey. It is not necessary to answer every
question, and you may discontinue your participation in the project
at
any time. The survey can be found at http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2265ZG8BJQG.

If you choose to participate in the study, your participation will be
completely confidential. Neither anyone reading the results of the
survey nor I will be able to identify you. Please do not put your
name
on the survey form. As an incentive to participate, you will be
eligible to win a $100 gift card to your choice of Dick's Sporting
Goods, The Sports Authority or espn.com. One winner will be chosen at
random. In order to be eligible, you must provide an e-mail address
at
the end of the survey. We assure you that the e-mail address will
only
be used to notify you in the case that you are the winner of the gift
card. It will not be attached to your answers in the survey, or
otherwise be used to identify you. Your e-mail address will not be
sold or given to anyone and will be immediately deleted from our
database once the winner of the gift card has been determined.

If you have any questions about the project, you may contact me at
(410) 402-2063, my faculty advisor, Dr. Sean Baker at (410) 704-5856,
or the Chairperson of Towson University's Institutional Review Board
for the Protection of Human Participants, Dr. Patricia M. Alt, at
(410) 704-2236. A copy of the results of the survey, reported in
aggregate form, will be available to you upon completion of my
project, if you would like to see it.
Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Gene DiPaula
Graduate Student, Towson University, www.towson.edu

On Mar 21, 2:00 am, "genedipaula1" wrote:
My name is Gene DiPaula and I am a graduate student in the Department
of Mass Communication and Communication Studies at Towson University.
As part of the research for my master's thesis, I am conducting a
survey to determine how people feel about their favorite professional
athletes. If you choose to participate in my project, you will be
asked to complete a short survey. It is not necessary to answer every
question, and you may discontinue your participation in the project
at
any time. The survey can be found athttp://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2265ZG8BJQG.

If you choose to participate in the study, your participation will be
completely confidential. Neither anyone reading the results of the
survey nor I will be able to identify you. Please do not put your
name
on the survey form. As an incentive to participate, you will be
eligible to win a $100 gift card to your choice of Dick's Sporting
Goods, The Sports Authority or espn.com. One winner will be chosen at
random. In order to be eligible, you must provide an e-mail address
at
the end of the survey. We assure you that the e-mail address will
only
be used to notify you in the case that you are the winner of the gift
card. It will not be attached to your answers in the survey, or
otherwise be used to identify you. Your e-mail address will not be
sold or given to anyone and will be immediately deleted from our
database once the winner of the gift card has been determined.

If you have any questions about the project, you may contact me at(410) 402-2063, my faculty advisor, Dr. Sean Baker at(410) 704-5856,
or the Chairperson of Towson University's Institutional Review Board
for the Protection of Human Participants, Dr. Patricia M. Alt, at(410) 704-2236. A copy of the results of the survey, reported in
aggregate form, will be available to you upon completion of my
project, if you would like to see it.
Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Gene DiPaula
Graduate Student, Towson University,www.towson.edu

Is it a fattie masters' thesis?

-ilan

"John Forrest Tomlinson" wrote in message
...
On 20 Mar 2007 18:00:03 -0700, "genedipaula1"
wrote:

My name is Gene DiPaula and I am a graduate student in the Department
of Mass Communication and Communication Studies at Towson University.
As part of the research for my master's thesis, I am conducting a
survey to determine how people feel about their favorite professional
athletes. If you choose to participate in my project, you will be
asked to complete a short survey. It is not necessary to answer every
question, and you may discontinue your participation in the project
at
any time. The survey can be found at
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2265ZG8BJQG.

The survey is set up wrong -- it should not be possible to give more
than one response to the questions.

Did you get the idea that this was really a company fishing for email
addresses?

On 20 Mar 2007 18:00:03 -0700, "genedipaula1"
wrote:

My name is Gene DiPaula and I am a graduate student in the Department
of Mass Communication and Communication Studies at Towson University.
As part of the research for my master's thesis, I am conducting a
survey to determine how people feel about their favorite professional
athletes. If you choose to participate in my project, you will be
asked to complete a short survey. It is not necessary to answer every
question, and you may discontinue your participation in the project
at
any time. The survey can be found at http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2265ZG8BJQG.

The survey is set up wrong -- it should not be possible to give more
than one response to the questions.
--
JT
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John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
On 20 Mar 2007 18:00:03 -0700, "genedipaula1"
wrote:

My name is Gene DiPaula and I am a graduate student in the Department
of Mass Communication and Communication Studies at Towson University.
As part of the research for my master's thesis, I am conducting a
survey to determine how people feel about their favorite professional
athletes. If you choose to participate in my project, you will be
asked to complete a short survey. It is not necessary to answer every
question, and you may discontinue your participation in the project
at
any time. The survey can be found at http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2265ZG8BJQG.

The survey is set up wrong -- it should not be possible to give more
than one response to the questions.

You actually went to that site?! The Nigerian lottery scammers must
_love_ you!

Towson doesn't have a "Mass Communication and Communications Studies"
Department.

You'd better stop the risky behavior or you're going to catch
chlamydia or HPV.

R

On 20 Mar 2007 19:16:01 -0700, "RicodJour"
wrote:

You actually went to that site?! The Nigerian lottery scammers must
_love_ you!

I don't see how I can be scammed by looking at something an answering
a few anonymous questions.
--
JT
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On 20 Mar 2007 19:16:01 -0700, "RicodJour"
wrote:

You actually went to that site?! The Nigerian lottery scammers must
_love_ you!

Towson doesn't have a "Mass Communication and Communications Studies"
Department.

You'd better stop the risky behavior or you're going to catch
chlamydia or HPV.

Actually, it does, according to several Towson University grads we
have here.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

Curtis L. Russell wrote:
On 20 Mar 2007 19:16:01 -0700, "RicodJour"
wrote:

You actually went to that site?! The Nigerian lottery scammers must
_love_ you!

Towson doesn't have a "Mass Communication and Communications Studies"
Department.

You'd better stop the risky behavior or you're going to catch
chlamydia or HPV.

Actually, it does, according to several Towson University grads we
have here.

I stand corrected. I ignored the original post, but JFT's reply had
me wondering. I did a quick Google of {Towson "Mass Communication and
Communications Studies"}, figuring the OP would know their
department's name, and came up with a grand total of five hits.
Seemed mighty low for a university department.

My comment to JFT was intended to convey that those "I'm conducting a
survey" posts are rarely what they seem, particularly when they're
offering some sort of reward. Sometimes the surveyor is benefiting -
and you don't know how - and the web site is always benefiting.
Tracking cookies, email harvesting, etc.

Comments such as "I am conducting a survey to determine how people
feel about their favorite professional athletes." is inane. Let's see
- my favorite athletes, hmmm - I feel _good_ about them! This from a
student in a masters program...?

It's also bizarre that the poster is using a .com instead of an .edu,
and posting three names and phone numbers.

If the poster is for real, it's an odd set of circumstances. I can't
apologize for advising caution with surveys - even if this one may be
legitimate.

R

On Mar 21, 8:45 am, John Forrest Tomlinson
wrote:
On 20 Mar 2007 19:16:01 -0700, "RicodJour"
wrote:

You actually went to that site?! The Nigerian lottery scammers must
_love_ you!

I don't see how I can be scammed by looking at something an answering
a few anonymous questions.

Most of those surveys are simply a way of generating click-through
dollars.

You remember how your mother would tell you to put on a sweater when
it was 60 degrees out? Think of my concern for your welfare like
that. It may be annoying, but it's well intentioned.

R

John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
On 20 Mar 2007 19:16:01 -0700, "RicodJour"
wrote:

You actually went to that site?! The Nigerian lottery scammers must
_love_ you!

I don't see how I can be scammed by looking at something an answering
a few anonymous questions.

Your problem is that you're not paranoid enough.

What happens if you don't enter your email address? Then they've got
your IP address, like pretty much everyone else in the world who wants
it. The BIG thing they can do is correlate your IP address and the fact
that you really, really like Chris Horner. Which is no big deal for now,
but just wait till the CH porn site opens!

OK, I'm kinda sorry for that, but only a little.