<bump> about 8 more people needed with Bitcoin experience to take the full survey.  Anyone spare 30 - 40 minutes to help out this serious academic research?  Thanks, BarneyC

Sorry if this seems "off topic" but I need to reach out to the community more.

Can I beg and borrow 30 - 40 minutes of your precious time to help out with Security Lancaster study into trust in news reporting when used by people interested and/or using Bitcoin - especially those speculating?  Survey is in two parts and is best taken on a desktop or laptop browser.

Part One - A simple (if longish) questionnaire.  It takes on average 15 minutes and looks to understanding and trust of news, technology and Bitcoin.  Some of the questions are compulsory and might seem odd but be assured they are there for carefully considered reasons.

Part Two - A news story evaluation task and this is REALLY IMPORTANT part.  You are asked to rate six news stories as to their credibility - and on average this part takes another 15 - 20 minutes.

We really need more participants willing to take the whole study and in return our sincerest love and thanks.

The survey can be found online at https://lancasteruni.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b76SFHaUFwSo2Tr&Source=Bitcointalk2


Questions, comments and the like I'll do my best to answer.

Cheers

Barney Craggs
Security Lancaster

Thanks for that.  I must admit (despite a few naysayers but you expect that) an enormous amount of effort has gone into crafting a bunch of stuff into this survey along with a fair amount of coding to get Qualtrics to do.. tricks.

I can't disclose the underlying thinking until the survey closes (that would be silly given what the survey is trying to ascertain) but wrt the credibility of stories part... simply credibility is up to you.  Technically credibility is a facet of trust but in practise it means different things to different people BUT seems to end up in the same place.  Meaning the more credible (for whatever reason) you deem something to be the more likely you are to trust it.

I'm really hoping to get over 100 full study participants by the end of the month as that will enable some (ironically) credibility with the results in the fields of psychology and sociology as well as my core discipline - cyber-security.  Hopefully this study will provide one of the first formal looks into usage along with how and why news might be a price determinant of Bitcoin.  Normally this determinant status is merely asserted by statistical correlation between a news story being published and a price movement, here I hope to be able to explain why people respond to those news stories.

Please please do encourage others especially from the Bitcoin community who have remained somewhat bashful in helping out.

Again thanks

Cheers Tommy.  There are a number of hypothesis at test in the survey (hence the length and sometime obscurity of some questions).  All responses are greatly appreciated and should go some way to several new insights into Bitcoin users.

*BUMP* Thanks for those of you who have already offered help. I need well over a hundred people in total so please do take the survey if you can spare half an hour AND care about Bitcoin

Is Bitcoin a boon for the criminal or disruptive power for good?

Is it done or do you foresee a rosy future for the cryptocurrency?

Here at Security Lancaster we are undertaking a large study into people’s understanding of Bitcoin and what prospects it might have going forward.  We are also looking to gather data on how people ind and understand information about Bitcoin.

So if you have an opinion - and especially if you have ever used Bitcoin in anyway - do please help us out by taking the survey over at https://lancasteruni.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b76SFHaUFwSo2Tr&Source=BitCoinTalk

Thanks

Barney Craggs
Security Lancaster