Students need your help with survey on foreign talents
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 10:18 am | 594 views
A group of junior college students is seeking your help in “attempting to study the problem of xenophobia in Singapore.” It is part of their class’s project work submission.
“For the purposes of this survey, the term ‘foreign talent’ refers to skilled people who have come to Singapore in order to work or study. These are people who have not spent the large part of their lives in Singapore. They could include, but are not limited to, Permanent Residents.”
Please do participate in the survey. All information will be kept strictly confidential.
Please click here.
Thank you.
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Yo, target audience restricted to 21 years and below only?
Oh. Looks like these students don’t want the opinions of anyone over 21. Good job.
code is broken in firefox
Also I guess they limited the age because their teacher told them to. Gee I know what it was like going through that Project Work crap and having all kinds of restrictions because you “can’t make any nice conclusions if your sample size is too diverse”. Well there’s a point but I don’t think that many u-21s visit this site anyway.
Hello, thanks for the feedback.
On hindsight, it would indeed be more useful to include everyone in the survey. However, we chose to restrict it to students under the age of 21 because our proposed solutions are targetted at these people. And kero is right, we also need to create the illusion that we really thought through our entire project, attempting to be as precise as possible in our research.
Besides, you’re welcome to take part in the survey nonetheless. You just won’t be profiled thats all.
I don’t think the code’s broken in firefox by the way, I tried it myself on firefox and it works. Maybe you need to update your browser?
P.S. Maybe when this is done with I’ll craft a better survey with the help of some of the editors here, might be more helpful this way as well.
Then your survey seems to be methodologically flawed. Look at the groups involved - it is difficult to treat xenophobia in Singapore if you are looking at under 21s, a large proportion of which are not working/are still in school. Like you said, you are looking for students. Your questions deal with jobs etc, and i think it is a logical contradiction because one group excludes the other, UNLESS you are looking at what students think, based on what they’ve been fed by the media and what they believe.
If you want to keep your study theoretical then it is fine, but please state these restrictions. I find it hard to believe that your study will turn out representative data on the situation itself.
i cant click on others in the schooling box. I’m 20 and I’m in Uni. So, no go.
Hello,
Guojun - Thanks for the feedback. It’s actually quite hard to justify why we stuck to students only, your comments are duly noted, I’ll address them further in our report. Briefly however, our survey isn’t meant to provide representative data on the situation, but only to the extent where students are concerned. We’ll bear the problem of not having experienced firsthand this policy in mind though. Thanks.
Mr kit - I’ve changed the survey already, you can click on others now. Thanks for doing the survey in advance. (:
I left quite a substantial comments in the survey. The teacher who read that is sure going to get blown by those comments. All the national education and love thy PAP propaganda don’t seem to seep in the mind of the adult Singaporeans.
I believe you WILL realize a more ROBUST response IF you will conduct your survey on THIS topic, at STREET LEVEL.. out there.
And if you are ONLY restricting your surveys to STUDENTS ONLY, you wasting your time… and effort.
well PW is simply for wayang purposes.
i say fake your survey results!
“It’s actually quite hard to justify why we stuck to students only,” is the exact reason why you will fail this. If you cannot understand why you chose your threshold to begin with, your survey is trash. just like the foreign trash we’re seeing so many of.