Survey fatigue and the tragedy of the commons: Are we undermining our evaluation practice?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Adrian Field
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Tragedy Of The Commons ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Evaluation Practice ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Gathering Data

The arrival of low-cost online and automated survey technologies has substantially increased the possibilities for gathering data on people’s views and experiences. In the face of COVID-19, this has enabled continued outreach to people at a time when face-to-face surveys are often impossible. Yet the enhanced opportunity for gathering data also brings with it the danger of its over-use, and with it, the onset of survey fatigue. In this piece, I discuss the challenges of survey fatigue, and I ask if we are treating people’s patience and trust in research processes as a limitless resource, when in fact goodwill has its limits. Parallels are drawn between survey fatigue and the concept of the “tragedy of the commons”, in which systems of exploitation ultimately undermine their own viability. Finally, I explore possible responses, and our obligations to exercise our evaluative practice with due care for research participants, and the sustainability of our profession.

The Evolution of Morality

PARADIGMI ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 173-196
Author(s):  
Stephan White
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Tragedy Of The Commons ◽  
Evolution Of Morality ◽  
Morality Plays ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Commons ◽  
One Step

It seems clear that cooperation when cheating would go undetected - for example, in many-person prisoner's dilemmas or "tragedy of the commons" cases - is a precondition of the functioning of modern social institutions. Such cooperation seems difficult to explain in evolutionary terms, however, since those who are disposed to cheat seem to enjoy a systematic advantage relative to those who are not. Further- more, the appeal to mechanisms for the detection and punishment of noncooperation, since those mechanisms themselves presuppose cooperation, merely pushes the problem one step back. In this paper I argue that morality plays an ineliminable role in the explanation of the forms of cooperation in question. Moreover, I provide a schema for the evolution of morality in the face of the advantages that those disposed to cheat apparently enjoy.

Understanding clients’ experience of trust and distrust in dwelling fit-out projects

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Ning ◽  
Minjie Feng ◽  
Jin Feng ◽  
Xiao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Data Sources ◽  
Response Strategy ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Cost Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Multiple Data ◽  
The Face ◽  
Gathering Data ◽  
Proper Balance

PurposeDrawing upon the ambivalence literature, the purpose of this paper is to explore clients’ ambivalence caused by the co-existence of trust and distrust and to investigate how clients respond to the ambivalence.Design/methodology/approachQualitative research strategies using multiple data sources were adopted. Face-to-face interviews were the major method for gathering data. Additional data sources included archival cases, official reports, regulations and rules and survey reports.FindingsThe results identified that clients’ ambivalence occurs in the face of the co-existence of trust and distrust. Clients might trust contractors on certain aspects and distrust of others or when they realize that trust and/or distrust have mixed merits and demerits. As a response strategy to the ambivalence, clients may choose to oscillate between trust and distrust in accordance with contractors’ quality and cost performance.Research limitations/implicationsOne limitation is that dwelling fit-out projects are generally small in size. Parties in small size projects might have different mindsets than large projects. Thus, it is worthwhile to extend the framework to the context of large projects.Practical implicationsManagers or clients should be aware of the double-edged sword nature of trust and distrust. To deal with the ambivalence resulting from co-existence of trust and distrust, a proper balance of trust and distrust might be effective.Originality/valueThis study contributes an ambivalence approach to the trust research in project management.

A comparison of mode effects between face-to-face and drop-off contingent valuation surveys

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-527
Author(s):  
Hua Ma ◽  
Hui Liu ◽  
Yazhen Gong ◽  
Jianjun Jin ◽  
Xianqiang Mao
Keyword(s):  
Contingent Valuation ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Environmental Valuation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Mode Effects ◽  
The Face ◽  
Carry Over ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the practice potential of self-administered drop-off as a survey mode for contingent valuation (CV) studies. Design/methodology/approach – This paper conducts an empirical comparison of mode effects of two survey methods for improved ecological services in Beijing. Data were collected from a CV survey, which has two subsamples, one using face-to-face interviews and the other employing self-administered drop-off surveys. Findings – There is some evidence of social desirability bias in the face-to-face interviews for the participation question; however, such effects do not carry over to subjects’ responses to the contribution decision. No difference is observed in sample demographics between modes. And satisficing effect is not observed in the drop-off survey in this study. Research limitations/implications – More well-controlled mode comparisons are warranted to test the robustness of the results; and collection time effects as well as the use of drop-off surveys for environmental valuation with different levels of complexity and familiarity are worthy of further study. Practical implications – The authors find more similarities between drop-off and face-to-face surveys than differences therefore support the practice of self-administered drop-off surveys in CVM for environmental valuation. Originality/value – This paper adds to the limited number of well-controlled mode comparisons in the CV surveys, and contributes to a better understanding of self-administered drop-off surveys, a potential low-cost alternative to face-to-face interviews in future CV applications.

scholarly journals How Did The Covid-19 Pandemic Effect Audience Attitudes in Webinars?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiloren Tanidir ◽  
Fatih Gokalp ◽  
Nebil Akdogan ◽  
Ali Furkan Batur ◽  
Çağrı Akın Şekerci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Electronic Library ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Share Information ◽  
Future Date ◽  
Significant Increment ◽  
Group 1

Introduction: Following the Covid-19 pandemic, the face-to-face meetings are delayed to a future date , which is still not clear. However, seminars, meetings, and conferences are necessary for updating our knowledge and skills. The web-based seminars (webinars) are the solutions to this issue. This study aimed to show the participant behavior when webinars present at the Covid-19 pandemic era. Methods: Between December 2017 – July 2020, 58 webinars were broadcasted via the Uropedia, electronic library of SUST. Data of all webinars were collected with the YouTube analytics and application of the Uropedia. Data of streaming webinars included participant behaviors such as content views, engagement time, total unique attendees, average engagement time, and the number of audience to leads. Data were split into two groups; group-1 is webinars before Covid-19 (before March 2020), group-2 is the webinars during Covid-19. Results: Total broadcast time and total page view number were found to be 112.6 hours (6761 min.) and 15919, respectively. The median participant age was 40.1 years. Median content view and median engagement time were found to be 261.0 min., and 12.2 min., respectively. Comparison of two groups revealed a significant increment in the content views (group 1;134.0 range=86.0-87.0 and group 2; 414.0 range=296.0-602.0, p<0.001) and the number of the unique attendees (group 1; 18.0 range=10.0-26.0 and group 2; 57.0 range=27.0-100.0, p<0.001) following Covid-19. However, the median engagement time of the audience did not seem to change with the Covid-19 pandemic (group 1; 11.5 range=10.0-13.3 min. and group 2; 13.2 range=9.4-18.1 min., p=0.12). Conclusion: The webinars are effective ways to share information and have many advantages, including low cost, reaching the high number of audiences. Audience number and page visits seemed to increase following the Covid-19 pandemic. However, The engagement time did not seem to affect a critical attitude of the audience

Can teledermatology be a useful diagnostic tool in dermatology practice in remote areas? An Egyptian experience with 600 patients

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Saleh ◽  
Rania Abdel Hay ◽  
Rehab Hegazy ◽  
Marwa Hussein ◽  
Dalia Gomaa
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Complete Agreement ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Clinical Images ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
The Face ◽  
Store And Forward ◽  
Diagnostic Concordance

Introduction The paucity of studies evaluating teledermatology (TD) in developing countries was the impetus behind conducting this work. We aimed to evaluate the feasibility and reliability of TD in remote areas where medical facilities and consultant dermatologists are not available, through measurement of diagnostic concordance rates between face-to-face diagnosis and store-and-forward (SAF) TD diagnosis. Methods A total of 600 patients with dermatological ailments who attended Abshway Hospital were recruited into the study, examined by an on-site dermatology resident, and offered a diagnosis. The clinical images and patients’ history were collected and transferred (through the Dropbox application) to two remote consultant dermatologists. The reliability of the three physicians’ agreement rates was assessed. Results Diagnostic agreement rates between the face-to-face dermatologist and the two teledermatologists were 86.7% and 87% respectively. Of the cases, 97% had complete or partial agreement and 81.3% of cases showed complete agreement between the three physicians. The reliability of the three physicians’ agreement rates was assessed statistically using Cohen’s kappa coefficient (κ) and this showed a range of 0.46–0.52. Conclusion This study might aid in enhancing the utilization of this tool in our country, especially in remote areas with a lack of a proper dermatological service. The simplicity and low cost of the adopted technique might facilitate its use over large sectors. It opens the door for gaining the benefit of this technology in other aspects such as teaching and monitoring health care providers.

An Analysis of the Dynamics of a Distance Course

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Barkhi ◽  
John Brozovsky
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Remote Communication ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Group Projects ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Face ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Audio Video ◽  
E Mail

The recent developments in telecommunications have created low-cost facilities for remote communication and interaction. Academic institutions are investigating the potential of this technology for distance education to create virtual classrooms. In a virtual classroom, students are dispersed geographically and their interaction with the course professor and other students is facilitated via electronic screen monitors that facilitate two-way audio-video interaction. Although this technology is being promoted to reach students who cannot be residents on campus, the dynamics of this technology on education is not well understood. This article reports the results of a study that compares the dynamics of a traditional classroom with a virtual classroom facilitated by two-way audio-video technology. The results indicate the Video-Mediated ( VM) students are not more inhibited to ask questions in class than are their Face-to-Face ( FtF) counterparts. The VM students use e-mail to ask questions while the FtF students ask questions more by visiting the professor's office. Both VM and FtF students rate the way lectures are delivered to be equally appropriate. Finally, FtF students interact with their group members to work on group projects in a face-to-face mode while students in a VM class use e-mail and phone to interact with their group members to work on collaborative joint projects. Although on most measures FtF and VM students do not differ substantially, both VM and FtF students perceive FtF interaction to be more appropriate for resolving conflicts on group projects. We also investigated outcome measures between the two FtF and VM groups. The Face-to-Face students did as well as Video-Mediated Students on midterms but the overall performance that consists of midterm grades, assignments, and group projects was better for FtF students than for VM students. Implications of the findings will be discussed.

scholarly journals Cost Effective Open Educational Platform to Face the Challenge of Massification in Cadi Ayyad University

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Abdellah J. Idrissi ◽  
Khalid Berrada ◽  
Rachid Bendaoud ◽  
Khadija El Kharki ◽  
Said Machwate ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Academic Failure ◽  
Pedagogical Innovation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
The Face ◽  
Flipped Classrooms

This work presents the UC@MOOC project as a pedagogical innovation to face the effects of massification that are making Moroccan universities endure many constraints for the past ten years, as well as other African universities. It aims, among its objectives, to cope with the massification factor and to overcome the language difficulties encountered by students. In this project, our top priority is to reduce academic failure then we will get to the point of responding to the training' needs. Courses are scripted and posted online which did not require many resources, so their production cost is relatively low. Audiovisual digital content also helps us to save time, and go to a hybrid teaching or even flipped classrooms in some cases. The idea is not to suppress the face-to-face courses but, instead, to place teachers at the center of this educational innovation. The online posting of free content allows students to deepen knowledge autonomously and independently. We will present the low-cost economical model that has been used to support this initiative and the challenges that we are facing. Some provided ideas on the critical success factors of this initiative will be described and discussed.

Analysing the knowledge base configuration that drives southwest Saxony’s automotive firms

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Plum ◽  
Robert Hassink
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Automotive Manufacturing ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Face ◽  
Knowledge Transfers ◽  
Social Network Analyses ◽  
Innovation Processes

So far little research has been undertaken on analysing automotive clusters from a knowledge base perspective. Existing studies provide ambiguous hints as to which knowledge base is crucial for automotive manufacturing and innovation processes. This article therefore aims to analyse the knowledge base configuration of automotive clusters in more detail. It does so by investigating the nature and geography of knowledge sourcing and interactive innovation processes of southwest Saxony’s automotive firms. Drawing on face-to-face interviews with representatives of 58 firms and social network analyses of knowledge transfers we show that the firms rely heavily on the synthetic knowledge base whereas the analytical knowledge base is comparatively weak. In the face of its precarious position between the highly innovative western automotive centres and the low-cost sites in central and eastern Europe, it is at least uncertain whether this knowledge base configuration will safeguard the clusters’ competitiveness in the long run.

Market Failure, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Default Libertarianism in Contemporary Economics and Policy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Budolfson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
Tragedy Of The Commons ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Commons

Many political theorists take the phenomenon of market failure to show that arguments for libertarianism fail in a straightforward way. This chapter explains why the most common form of this objection depends on invalid reasoning, and why a more sophisticated examination of the relevant economics has led most contemporary economists and policy experts to a view that might be called Default Libertarianism, according to which the strong default for public policy—even in response to market failures—should be toward decentralized, pro-individual freedom policies that involve minimal government intervention in markets. Some experts (but by no means all) similarly believe that even in the face of substantial market failures, libertarian policies are generally best all things considered. This shift toward more libertarian policy represents an important change from the middle of the twentieth century. This chapter explains the structure of the arguments that have led to this shift.

Supporting the Use of Rudimentary Vocalizations

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Zubow ◽  
Richard Hurtig
Keyword(s):  
Rett Syndrome ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Multiple Modalities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Perceptual Judgments ◽  
The Face

Children with Rett Syndrome (RS) are reported to use multiple modalities to communicate although their intentionality is often questioned (Bartolotta, Zipp, Simpkins, & Glazewski, 2011; Hetzroni & Rubin, 2006; Sigafoos et al., 2000; Sigafoos, Woodyatt, Tuckeer, Roberts-Pennell, & Pittendreigh, 2000). This paper will present results of a study analyzing the unconventional vocalizations of a child with RS. The primary research question addresses the ability of familiar and unfamiliar listeners to interpret unconventional vocalizations as “yes” or “no” responses. This paper will also address the acoustic analysis and perceptual judgments of these vocalizations. Pre-recorded isolated vocalizations of “yes” and “no” were presented to 5 listeners (mother, father, 1 unfamiliar, and 2 familiar clinicians) and the listeners were asked to rate the vocalizations as either “yes” or “no.” The ratings were compared to the original identification made by the child's mother during the face-to-face interaction from which the samples were drawn. Findings of this study suggest, in this case, the child's vocalizations were intentional and could be interpreted by familiar and unfamiliar listeners as either “yes” or “no” without contextual or visual cues. The results suggest that communication partners should be trained to attend to eye-gaze and vocalizations to ensure the child's intended choice is accurately understood.

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