Quote from: btceic on October 19, 2013, 02:09:54 PM

I filled out the survey to help with research but I feel that the questions are leaning towards the amateurish, a bit sporadic and not very well thought out. It is a good start but I am not sure what kind of data she will be able to extrapolate from this.

I agree with this. Unfortunately it would be prohibitive to get people to take a longer, more in-depth survey without some sort of compensation. And I would imagine that the Bitcoin community is not large enough to trust any online survey too much and very few of us would participate in in-person surveys where they can ensure that each person gives only one set of responses.

As to her academic uses of this, who knows. Online anything/social media are very new fields and I imagine the grades and research expectations are curved to accommodate that.

What is important is that there is more work in the public sphere that makes Bitcoin more normal in the eyes of the uninitiated. This is just one step in that direction. Maybe the results get published and hit Google. Maybe 6 months later some writer trying to find a story to sell reads the survey results, then contacts Ms. Lustig. And we get an opinion being considered that is more informed than so many of the morons currently opining on Bitcoin (...how many articles did you read about a BTC crash after S.R. was taken down?). This is still the beginning. The potential of Bitcoin will only be realized when there is sufficient awareness, knowledge, and accessibility.

P.S. To goxed: Lame dude. No one cares what anyone looks like. When you do stuff like that you seem childish. Of all the things online about her, you decided her picture was the most interesting to share, not her past research, not something that you think explains her intent here, not anything that matters at all.