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Oh no worries. As I was first reading the OP, I was thinking of posting straight to the thread, but thought better of it. Most of these questions delve into territory that "isn't spoken of in polite company" kinda stuff. Feathers can get ruffled fast. Props to Ryan for putting his thoughts out there.Gershom wrote:Uber, don't worry, totally anonymous. Unless you pull an "anonymous" and put your response on this thread instead of PMing me.
UberHuberMan wrote:Oh no worries. As I was first reading the OP, I was thinking of posting straight to the thread, but thought better of it. Most of these questions delve into territory that "isn't spoken of in polite company" kinda stuff. Feathers can get ruffled fast. Props to Ryan for putting his thoughts out there.Gershom wrote:Uber, don't worry, totally anonymous. Unless you pull an "anonymous" and put your response on this thread instead of PMing me.
Thats what she said.Gershom wrote: we already saw yours Alden.![]()
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Alden wrote:Thats what she said.Gershom wrote: we already saw yours Alden.![]()
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No. My prof gave us guidelines for the first seven, because these are some of the essential questions asked by many about life. These are the ones they have to figure out. This ethnography is a study of smokers and their worldviews, so I added the last three questions for our own flavor.Bryan Johnson wrote:What was that line in the Woody Allen movie? Something about how he cheated during a test in a philosophy course by looking into the soul of the guy sitting next to him.
Did your prof. come up with these questions for any type of behavior, and you're just supposed to plug in "smoking" for the behavior? Would another student plug in another behavior, such as "cheating on your taxes" or "having sex with goats"? If so, I would be very interested to see how those other students decide to do *their* research... "'Scuse me, sir, but could I ask you a series of ques.... WHOAH! What the *heck* are you *doing* to that chocolate cream pie?"
This probably explains why I left anthropology and became a Marine.
That's a great idea. I didn't even think about smokingpipes.com, but I did think about the pipe shop approach. The only issue is that the paper can only be 45 pages, so too much info would make it a bit overloaded. I'll see what I can do to better represent smokers as a whole.Bryan Johnson wrote: Naw, my only concern is that by surveying this group you're skewing (*note* the spelling, please!) the data, since members of this forum are self-selecting. The data will be much different than you'd find to visitors to a pipe shop and *those* results would be different than you'd find if you surveyed on the list of customers at, say, smokingpipes.com (they reach people who, like me, live in a rural area and rarely get to visit a pipe store in person). If you really want to blow your prof's mind, do surveys in all three populations and compare the data.
Of course not, obviously I won.Gershom wrote:
And SchmitN, you didn't win.