[Air-l] internet surveying question

[Peter Timusk]

I asked a ten member network of mental health consumer groups if the  
staff member felt comfortable with the Internet on a five point  
scale. I also asked if their group members felt comfortable again on  
a five point scale. The only staff that rated them selves more  
comfortable than the consumer members they worked for was male and a  
geek whose job was to teach computers to members. All the nine women  
rated themselves either less than 5 on comfort and some rated their  
members with higher comfort levels than themselves.

I can not really share more than that. These were added questions to  
a census of the groups to determine who would get computer funding  
based on need and to balance the ten groups in the network and bring  
them all into high speed internet use.




Peter Timusk B.Math(2002) BA (2006)
Tel: 001-613-729-8328
Community Informatics Practitioner
Email: ptimusk at sympatico.ca
Yahoo ID: crystal_computing
Skype ID: peter.timusk

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Nothing I write is intended to be representative of my employer, or  
our clients. Nor do I alone speak for my unions.
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Computer ethics studies at www.webpagex.org
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On 25-Apr-07, at 9:42 PM, Jeremiah Spence wrote:

> I am designing a survey that will be implemented in June with users of
> telecenters in Brazil that will attempt to rate the skill level or  
> maybe
> the degree of sophistication of the internet user.
>
> Does anyone know of any existing surveys or literature that I might be
> able to explore?
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremiah Spence
> PhD Student
> Department of Radio, Television & Film
> Population Research Center
> University of Texas at Austin
> jspence5 at mail.utexas.edu
>
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