Please do my short survey on Bitcoin!

[frisbeee]

Hello Everyone!
I'm an MBA student with a concentration in Analytics and Finance. I'm currently working on a project on Bitcoin for a class. If you can take out 5 minutes out of your time to complete my survey, that would be really helpful!
https://montclair.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7VWhLncpNUq765v
It is completely anonymous, and the results will be shared only with people in academia. Thank you for your time!

[IceOleg]

Hello Everyone!
I'm an MBA student with a concentration in Analytics and Finance. I'm currently working on a project on Bitcoin for a class. If you can take out 5 minutes out of your time to complete my survey, that would be really helpful!
https://montclair.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7VWhLncpNUq765v
It is completely anonymous, and the results will be shared only with people in academia. Thank you for your time!

Done! Good luck with the project and hope you are going to share some interesting results with us!

[imamimam1234]

Hope my little participation can help your project in your class about bitcoin. No matter what results will be. Long live knowledge science and education. Good luck

[frisbeee]

Thank you for your response! Every reply helps. Most of the students in my class haven't even heard of bitcoin, including my professor!
I'm hoping my presentation would bring awareness about this new asset!

[mostkey]

I do not understand the survey you made. why should we include some personal data? is this one scam? so you can manipulate data from multiple users? I'm a bit hesitant about this. plus you are a newbie. this may be one of the ways you can hack by utilizing our personal data

[surfinonmyownwavebaby]

No problemo I took the few minutes to complete the survey. I hope you find some interesting statistics with that survey you put out, I think you will be pleasantly surprised

[frisbeee]

I do not understand the survey you made. why should we include some personal data? is this one scam? so you can manipulate data from multiple users? I'm a bit hesitant about this. plus you are a newbie. this may be one of the ways you can hack by utilizing our personal data

I completely understand your concern. The survey has demographic questions like age, area of work, etc. That's only there to understand what age group of people are indulging in bitcoin, and which industry they work in, and so on. My guess is that most people that are interested in Bitcoin would be in finance, but I could be wrong. The survey results would help me get to that conclusion.
The questions in my opinion are not that personal, you'd see these kind of demographic questions on any survey you take. And honestly I don't know how I could hack by using your zip code lol. In multiple questions, there's an option to select 'prefer not to answer', you can always select that option if you're hesitant.
The survey is purely for academic purposes, and after I compile the results, I'd be working on Tableau to create visualizations to summarize my findings. Do let me know if you have any more concerns.

Thank you for looking into the survey!

[Caesar-Giulius]

Done the survey, good luck to your research and study. If possible, are you able to publish the result in this thread? I will be interested to know about the result.

By the way, is there a need to collect zip code? I think country alone is good enough.

[frisbeee]

Done the survey, good luck to your research and study. If possible, are you able to publish the result in this thread? I will be interested to know about the result.

By the way, is there a need to collect zip code? I think country alone is good enough.

Thank you for doing the survey! I am looking forward to working on the data! I would definitely publish the results here.

The reason why I wanted to collect both the country and zip code was because I want to create 2 different charts in Tableau, one for the world and one for US. If most of my responses are from US, then I'd only create a chart for USA, for which I need the zip code. I want to give an overall idea of where most of my responses came from.

[Emoclaw]

I just completed the survey as well, small and easy. Good luck with your project and also do tell us if the presentation is well-received by your class or not when you do it.
I'd be interested to learn how your fellow students would respond to such an educated presentation about Bitcoin while having not heard of it at all.

[DannyHamilton]

I tried to fill out your survery, however . . .

You offer a response on your survey of "I have never heard of Bitcoin/No experience", and then you advertise your survey on the bitcointalk.org website.  This is going to create a VERY large bias in the responses.  While a VERY large percentage of the general population might never have heard of Bitcoin, only a VERY small percentage of the responses you get from this thread will make that selection.


ALSO

You ask the question, "Were these transactions made within your own country or overseas?"
Then you offer a choice of "Own Country" and a choice of "Overseas".  Which one am I supposed to choose if I have done both?  Which one am I supposed to choose if I used it in a neighboring country that shares a land border with my country (So I don't need to cross over any Sea)?

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You ask the question, "Do you think bitcoin will become a mainstream currency, by replacing the existing currencies?"
Then you only offer choices of "Yes", "No", and "Can't Say".  Which one am I supposed to choose if I thing it will become a mainstream currency, WITHOUT replacing existing currencies?

ALSO

You ask the question, "Do you think you can live off only bitcoin for a week?"
Most people can go a whole week without spending any money at all.  Therefore, it would be easy for nearly everybody to "live off only bitcoin for a week".  It might have been better to ask about a longer period of time (such as a month).

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You list "No central authority" as a disadvantage?  Isn't that an advantage?

[Iranus]

The reason why I wanted to collect both the country and zip code was because I want to create 2 different charts in Tableau, one for the world and one for US. If most of my responses are from US, then I'd only create a chart for USA, for which I need the zip code.

Couldn't you ask less specific information, such as the person's state? 

I know that asking for a zip code is relatively normal on online surveys, and I personally filled it out, but you might cut off a reasonable slice of your audience if they're privacy-orientated people (and those sorts of people may be more or less likely to believe other things on your survey as well).

I also thought that the "disadvantages" section was very brief and missed a lot of more relevant disadvantages (practical transaction capacity or the likelihood of mining pool centralisation, for example).

[frisbeee]

Thank you for taking out time to look at my survey!
Your concerns are understandable, and my responses are as follows:

You offer a response on your survey of "I have never heard of Bitcoin/No experience", and then you advertise your survey on the bitcointalk.org website.  This is going to create a VERY large bias in the responses.  While a VERY large percentage of the general population might never have heard of Bitcoin, only a VERY small percentage of the responses you get from this thread will make that selection.

I have asked a lot of other people to do my survey, for e.g. friends, classmates, family etc. So I tried to put in all possible answer options for that question.

ALSO

You ask the question, "Were these transactions made within your own country or overseas?"
Then you offer a choice of "Own Country" and a choice of "Overseas".  Which one am I supposed to choose if I have done both?  Which one am I supposed to choose if I used it in a neighboring country that shares a land border with my country (So I don't need to cross over any Sea)?

Your concern is valid, I didn't think about that. I should've made it a check all that apply kind of question.

ALSO

You ask the question, "Do you think bitcoin will become a mainstream currency, by replacing the existing currencies?"
Then you only offer choices of "Yes", "No", and "Can't Say".  Which one am I supposed to choose if I thing it will become a mainstream currency, WITHOUT replacing existing currencies?

In that case you should select 'no', because essentially you don't think it will replace existing currencies.

ALSO

You ask the question, "Do you think you can live off only bitcoin for a week?"
Most people can go a whole week without spending any money at all.  Therefore, it would be easy for nearly everybody to "live off only bitcoin for a week".  It might have been better to ask about a longer period of time (such as a month).

I'm talking about a typical work week, where you'd buy groceries, spend on lunch, commute etc.

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You list "No central authority" as a disadvantage?  Isn't that an advantage?

In my opinion it's really a personal preference. A lot of people might think of it as an advantage, on the other hand people might also think of it as a disadvantage.

I would request you to go back to the survey and complete it if you haven't already!
Thank you!!

[leex1528]

Filled out.  Hope it goes well and let me know if you need anything else.  Can I ask you what you are doing your report on?  Just like knowledge of the coin, or how it works, or Crypto currencies are the future.  I'd love to see the presentation when finished if you are able to share it as well.

[btmtb]

Good luck

[frisbeee]

The reason why I wanted to collect both the country and zip code was because I want to create 2 different charts in Tableau, one for the world and one for US. If most of my responses are from US, then I'd only create a chart for USA, for which I need the zip code.

Couldn't you ask less specific information, such as the person's state? 

I know that asking for a zip code is relatively normal on online surveys, and I personally filled it out, but you might cut off a reasonable slice of your audience if they're privacy-orientated people (and those sorts of people may be more or less likely to believe other things on your survey as well).

I also thought that the "disadvantages" section was very brief and missed a lot of more relevant disadvantages (practical transaction capacity or the likelihood of mining pool centralisation, for example).

I guess you're right, I could've just asked for the state too. I don't think I can go back to change it now.
As for the disadvantages,  I wanted to keep it quite broad, so that even if someone that knows little about Bitcoin would be able to answer the questions. But thanks for the feedback!

[frisbeee]

Filled out.  Hope it goes well and let me know if you need anything else.  Can I ask you what you are doing your report on?  Just like knowledge of the coin, or how it works, or Crypto currencies are the future.  I'd love to see the presentation when finished if you are able to share it as well.

Thank you for doing the survey! My main aim is to gather knowledge about how everyone feels about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It is so interesting that Bitcoin has been increasing in value over the years, and majority of the people haven't even heard of it. It's for an analytics class. At the end, I would summarize the results and present to my class.

[Kiridaya]

Answered it, good luck on your project 

[bane1990]

dane. hope this can help you, success for you

[frisbeee]

Thank you! Really appreciate it!