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Originally Posted by starang21
no, but i would hardly call a message board somewhere you can find "expert or critical" analysis. you yourself said "I'm not interested in the excessive back and forth on-line" but by coming to a message board, that is EXACTLY what you're going to get. whether or not the back and forth is suitable for research...that's for you to decide, it's your dissertation. check my 2nd post in this thread, i even said that your topic was a valid topic of research...so i'm confused as to exactly what this exchange is about.
i never said anything about the topic being good or not, whether it is or it isn't is completely irrelevant and pointless to me, because that's not my field of study. it's easy to ask for hard answers to hard questions, but don't get discouraged or pissy when the answers you get aren't the ones you want.
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I believe I asked folks to respond to an online survey, not on this site. Those are two different things. I didn't ask for back and forth. If that was the case, I simply would have jumped on list-serves and quoted the comments people made. That's not what was done. Also, I'm not working on a dissertation. I'm working on a book, again, two different things. I'm equally confused about this exchange since I told you I intially was responding to Solomon. You responded again, so I felt obliged to clarify what you seemd confused about, and the cycle continues.
Lastly, I am not nor would I get "pissy" over responses to questions for a few reasons. First, I was not soliciting information on this site. I asked folks to join another, private list-serve, to respond to a few questions. Whatever information folks provided on the list-serve prior to or since then is not included in the research. Second, I have no preconceived notion of what the answers will or should be. Third, I didn't write the chapter. I edit the entire book and write certain portions. Other chapters are written by scholars from other disciplines. Therefore, I am not overly worked up over what is said in any one chapter. Fourth, the chapter was written as of three weeks ago, so whatever is said in this dialogue is irrelevant in as much as the book is concerned.