NEED HELP WITH CLASS PROJECT

[exlurker]

Originally Posted by pelauren

Hi everyone!

. . . but I am doing a project on sorority culture for my health communications class, and I was wondering if any sorority members would be willing to fill out a short ANONYMOUS survey for me?
. . .
Thanks in advance!

Hate to point it out, but how on earth can you be sure that any respondents from an internet site are actual members of a sorority?
I suppose you could always divide the responses you collect into a couple of batches. One would be for responses from known sorority members (like ones on your own campus). The other could be presented / labeled as coming from internet responders who may or may not be sorority members.

[maxz]

Originally Posted by exlurker

Hate to point it out, but how on earth can you be sure that any respondents from an internet site are actual members of a sorority?
I suppose you could always divide the responses you collect into a couple of batches. One would be for responses from known sorority members (like ones on your own campus). The other could be presented / labeled as coming from internet responders who may or may not be sorority members.

For an undergraduate class project without (I'm certain) a research grant to build a survey panel, I'm sure a sample set of "persons who self-identify as a member of a university sorority" is probably just fine. I doubt she's planning on submitting this to JAMA for chrissakes.