Re: Questionnaire
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 19:30:30 +0100
we are epidemiologists of the Italian National Research Council
interested in exploring the potentiality of INTERNET for performing some
epidemiological investigations at international level. As far as we know
it is the first attemp of this type in epidemiological research.
If you are interested in joining, you are kindly requested to fill in
the following questionnaire for one day (at your choice) in the week 27
March - 1 April 1995 and send it back to (EPID@localhost).
We will pleased to answer any questions concerning the results of the
investigation (a gopher named "EPID.CNUCE.CNR.IT" will be available at
the IP port =7000).
Before people reply to this, they should think about this:
- Normally answers to this sort of investigations are given
anonymously. With answers via e-mail this is impossible,
since e-mail addresses can always be tracked back to a
person. How are you going to deal with that?
- What is the purpose of the investigation? You say that it
is for "exploring the potentiality of INTERNET" for this
sort of investigations, but the questions posed indicate
quite a different purpose:
- investigation on the use of PC's and VDT's;
- investigation on medical issues; these *seem* related
to the use of PC's and VDT's, but an item like "Number
of occasions in your lifetime" (for seeing a physician
or taking medicines for ...) contradicts this.
- Who is going to handle the raw data? Is there any guarantee
that they won't fall into the wrong hands (given that they
can't be anonymous)?
Oh, and most of Europe measures in centimeters, not inches...
Piet Beertema
Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
