susannah
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3/19/01 02:22 PM
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Drug and driving habits - psychological survey
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Hello
My name is Susannah Boubaker and I am a Final Year Psychology Student at the
University of Leeds. I am currently conducting a study concerned with
driving habits and lifestyles (in particular drug use) of regular drivers. If you drive a vehicle on
public roads regularly I would really appreciate it if you would just take 5
minutes to complete a simple questionnaire about your lifestyle and driving
habits. You get to the questionnaire by clicking on the following link:
http://ess.ntu.ac.uk/sutton/formfiles/boubaker/dability.htm
All answers are completely confidential and anonymous. The data produced
will be seen only by myself, Andy Sutton (the host of the questionnaire web
facility) and my project supervisor. However you will not be able to be
identified by any person at any time as all answers are strictly anonymous.
You are not obliged to answer any question which you feel may be too
personal, and can withdraw from the study at any time by simply exiting the
web page.
Thankyou very much for your help,
Susannah Boubaker
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stevefor420
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3/20/01 06:57 AM
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we need more info!!
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Hi: Your research sounds interesting, but marijuana users are a persecuted minority, and they are justifiably suspicious about identifying themselves in any way that can be traced.
I would also like you to provide some information about your paradigms and orientation. What are you hoping to find with your study? Who is funding it? Is your academic and/or personal orientation pro-marijuana legalization or against it? Why? What drugs are you comparing in your study? Who will receive the results? How can members of the cannabis culture be assured that you are not a government agent or anti-marijuana person? What benefit is it for us to cooperate with your project? How would your project benefit the marijuana legalization movement?
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susannah
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3/21/01 02:25 PM
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Re: we need more info!!
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Steve,
What a lot of questions! I'll try to sort them out one by one.
Firstly, the question about being traced/identified. I don't know how to
prove it but please take my assurance that it is completely anonymous and I
have no interest whatsoever in tracing anyone. I am not a computer whizz and
wouldn't know where to start finding out who sent answers! All the data is
automatically transported into a statistics package (SPSS) where all answers
are identified by numbers only. After that I enter a few equation
instructions, the software crunches the numbers and I get a statistical
answer to my hypothesis. I totally take your point about not wanting to be
identified, that is why I haven't asked for names, email addresses etc in
the form. If you would like any more reassurance about whether or not data
can be traced you could contact Andy Sutton who hosts the facility at
Nottingham Trent University (ESS department). The only people who have
access to the data will be myself, Andy Sutton and my project supervisor who
will mark my project. Even then though all data will be anonymous, and just
a collection of numbers in a spreadsheet type format.
I do have a hypothesis that the study is based upon, but purely in the
interest of not allowing anything to jeapordise my results I am not in a
position to divulge it to you. It's no big secret and I will let you know as
soon as my research is complete (in about 6 weeks), it just would be bad
scientific practice as it could open up my project to biases.
As I am an undergraduate student I receive no funding for my study, it is a
necessary part of my degree course, except for help towards photocopying
costs and library loans. Although not too good for me, it does help the
research to remain unbiased as no particular group is trying to influence
the results and ensure that the outcome is what they would like (as is the
case with a very large number of so-called 'unbiased' studies)
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My personal orientation towards the use of cannabis is completely neutral,
not particularly for it or against it. I do agree with legalisation for a
variety of reasons, mainly because I believe it to be no more harmful than
alcohol, in fact probably much less so. I think it has been clumped in
amongst with the harder drugs simply as bad luck, it could just have easily
have been alcohol which was banned. I am not a regular smoker purely because
I prefer a drink, but a great number of my friends are and I have no problem
with it whatsoever.
Anyone who emails me can request the results. My tutors at university will
see them and if it is a really good piece of work I could get it published
in a psychological journal, but I doubt it will be up to that standard!
I don't know how you can be totally sure I'm not who I say I am, but I
suppose you could ring the Psychology department at the University of Leeds
and find out.
There is no specific benefit for you in completing my form, but you are
helping me a great deal in getting a degree!
If my research goes the way I hope that it will and is published then the
findings WILL be beneficial to the marijuana legalization movement - so far
all indications are it will. If they don't go the way I would like I am more
likely to blame my research methods than the findings!
Hope this is all of help. If you would like a copy of the results and a full
description of the study just email me and I will be sure that you get it
when I've finished the project!
Susannah
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4free
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3/21/01 08:15 PM
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Re: we need more info!!
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Hey thanks, that it is kind of fun when your as cooked as I am! I still can't believe how much sociological and psycological research is done in this style; very scientific.
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love420
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3/22/01 01:29 PM
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Re: we need more info!!
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Let me try to help you understand the trace ability aspect. As the director of software for an internet site, I can tell you that everything is traceable. It is easy to obtain who accessed this web site via information logged with the domain hosting company. That information contains, through which domain a user accessed this web site, as well as what date and time they did, and the IP address for that session. From there authorities can trace whom via that individuals ISP. It is far too easy. With the who established, this would allow authorities to run license plate numbers and viola, you have a hot sheet of license plate numbers for traffic stops. Since they responded to your request for information about driving while under the influence; those that might respond that they drive while high, could be used as probable cause to search and sobriety test. This is all just too, too risky.
Be good to each other and treat each other well!
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4free
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3/22/01 03:31 PM
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Re: we need more info!!
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Man I pitty you poor growers in the USA...it must be freaky! As for your comments, I don't care at all if someone traces ME! I have let many political officials and law enforcement agencies know about my views on this "hot" issue here in Canada. Unlike in your country, small medicinal gardens are definetly not priority here. I would say that the Canadian law enforcement officers/agnecies have made some sort of half ass effort to hone down on busting moderatly sized, even recreational gardens; usually they are more concerned with the GOD DAMN BORDER and large scale operations, because of your rediculus government' influence!
Peace brother and be carefull out there! ALthough I do really feel that survey is fine for all. mabye someone else can "check it out" for you American folks down south.
PS You guys all grow where you post? Someone should trick the DEA sometime, then sue there ass off for millions!
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4free
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3/22/01 03:35 PM
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Re: we need more info!!
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Oh yea, forgot... You really think the DEA would have a data base of all stoned drivers, even with out criminal records, then have the ability to check them in an instant? Don't you think they would check to see if the plates were stolen first...probably not in that crazy country!
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DankMcNugget
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3/22/01 04:14 PM
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Re: we need more info!!
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I'll answer the survey if you put a link in that works. I don't care who knows whether or not I smoke pot. Yeah and I drive high too, that's right! In the past I used to drive under the influence of ....... alcohol!!! THAT was stupid.
MARIJUANA IS GOOD, MMM-KAY?
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susannah
(stranger
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3/22/01 05:31 PM
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Re: we need more info!!
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You have surprised me! However the host of the facility is not permitted to release the data to anyoune but myself and I have no interest in doing that and no ability to do it either!
Correction - the questionnaire is not attempting to see how people drive when under the influence, it merely asks how you drive generally. I don't want to reveal the exact nature of my study but it may surprise you to know that I am not interested in how cannabis effects driving, it is about something completely unconnected than can be measured indirectly by driving style, but is nothing at all to do with driving! For that reason I was not wanting people to answer it how they would drive when stoned, I want to know how they drive normally. Maybe I should have made it clearer!
Thanks for the interest
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susannah
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3/22/01 05:39 PM
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Re: we need more info!!
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Like the attitude!
And I totally agree with you, to be honest I think that the police have got better things to do than track down small time users. Besides, whatever anyone does say in a survey can't be used as a basis for prosecution, you could have made it all up!
I think people can be a bit paranoid, I really don't think police will be getting themselves excited about this!
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