Musicians Memory

[patskywriter]

Originally Posted by derek

... I just don't see the point in bashing a guy up front for something as innocuous as a simple survey.

Originally Posted by markerhodes

If he had said it was a simple, innocuous survey, I wouldn't have said anything, but he said this was research for work on a master's degree. I think that calls for a higher standard than "something as innocuous as a simple survey."

well, since you're not his instructor and don't know about the guy's project in detail, it seems so silly that you're even wasting time worrying about it. LOL

for all we know, he was testing a theory having to do with musicians' willingness to take part in a simple, innocuous survey.

[markerhodes]

Originally Posted by patskywriter

well, since you're not his instructor and don't know about the guy's project in detail, it seems so silly that you're even wasting time worrying about it. LOL

for all we know, he was testing a theory having to do with musicians' willingness to take part in a simple, innocuous survey.

First, I didn't waste as much time saying what I said--two or three sentences on the fly--as anyone who took the 'simple, innocuous survey.' (<<For the record, that description comes from a *defender* of the survey, not me.) The 'waste' has come in dealing with the fallout, such as this.

If he was testing a theory having to do with musicians' willingness to take part in a simple innocuous survey, then I don't mind taking the stand I took. Though I find it curious that you're not the first person to suggest that we don't know what the guy was actually trying to find out and therefore we should just go along lemming-like and do whatever we're asked. I don't think it sporting to lie to research subjects and I think it a slander on the person doing this survey to blithely suggest that he might have been doing that. I took him at his word and objected to the enterprise for the reasons I gave.