Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 04/02/07 02:48

University Student wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As part of a small research paper I am writing for a Web Technologies
> module making up part of my university degree, I am conducting a brief
> survey to gauge what active users of PHP think of the programming
> technology.
>
> The aim of the paper is to compare PHP with Ruby on Rails, and there
> is therefore a similar survey that will be completed by Ruby on Rails
> users. Any results collected will be extremely useful for my paper
> and will hopefully allow me to compare user experiences of the two
> technologies.
>
> If you are willing to complete the survey, please do so by going to
> this URL: http://insoul.net/phpsurvey.php
>
> Thank you for your time, and any submission you may make.
>

I would think if this were a research paper you would want a more
scientifically selected group of respondents. Anything you get by
posting like this in usenet groups is not going to be scientifically
accurate, nor is it going to be repeatable. And thereby it will be useless.

And if I were your professor and found you acquired your statistics this
way I wouldn't even bother to read any further in your paper, because
any results gathered this way are meaningless and therefore not worth my
time.

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