On this rainy Wednesday, I continued to pour over seARTS surveys and write down the info I could obtain from it. To fully abstract the data, I had to carefully examine the parts of the surveys that I needed to copy down. I begin this process by selecting a stack of surveys that came from a particular seARTS related event. I next write down the questions asked on the survey on separate sheets of paper. The questions that I write down are the multiple choice questions that make up most of a survey. After recording the number of surveys in that stack. I go through each survey and tally up the responses for each individual question asked on the survey.
This can be a very, very, long process. If is often very time consuming, for a number of reasons. The number of surveys can range from about 13 to 54 (actual numbers). As a result, much time is spent having to look through each one, a problem that is compounded by accidentally overlooking questions and having to count through the stack again. Deciphering the handwriting of the surveyed can also be quite the task. For as many legible surveys, there is twice the amount of illegible ones. Often someone will have misinterpreted a question and either will write an unhelpful comment on it or add what appears at first to be some sort of ink graffiti but is really just unreadable gibberish.
An important word is that tomorrow, I am having a meeting with a women who has a law office in Gloucester. She and I will discuss data and statistical analysis, which I hope will be beneficial toward my SCORE project.
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