2019 Nerdy Doggo Community Survey
February 13, 2019Why
This is turning into the worlds largest and most in depth research project about pup play, Last time we did this in 2017 we had over 1,700 respondents and by streamlining the process from then, we should have even more in 2019! There are many reasons we are conducting this large scale research project but here is a comprehensive list of what our objectives are:
- To help inspire future research in the academic community about the pup play community.
- To help inform workshop creators to help provide resources and topics that are the most helpful in the community.
- To create the first major comprehensive quantitative research series to be publicly viewable by the entire community.
- To see what topics are popular amongst the community to steer the direction of the pupplay.info resource and advice creation.
- To have quantitative facts to compare to 2017 results to begin seeing statistically significant trends in community to help community groups know what the greater picture looks like than what they only see in person.
Information Release
We will be releasing the results as an academic paper and then later combined in with future articles and other projects planned. Raw data that could be traced back to an individual will not be released, and what will be released, will be designed so no specific individual can be traced.
We did this same system last time to great success, you can see the free eBook at this link
Privacy & Security
We will NOT be making the raw data publicly available, this is to ensure the privacy of participants and no data released will be capable of being traced back to specific individuals. We DO NOT collect usernames, email addresses or account information. Your privacy is our top priority, which is why every individual result will stay anonymous
We have upgraded not only the pupplay.info website but have also made sure the form system we use has SSL certification. This is a form of encryption that’s end-to-end in a nutshell, making sure no one is listening in or stealing information. To make sure that this encryption is used, make sure the urls begin with https:// if your browser is up to date, it will tell you if the page your looking at is secure by saying “secure” or showing a padlock icon depending on your OS.
Professional Data Miners have volunteered to help us sift through the data to give meaningful statistical results and will be under legally bound Non-Disclosure Agreements and will not be allowed to share information outside of the final published report that will be publicly available to all.
We did this same strategy last time in 2017 and was successful, we had no leaks in privacy and kept all our promises to the project, this is what were striving for again in 2019
Developed by the Community
If you have an idea or some feedback, don’t hesitate to ask us. If it is as unbiased as possible, there is a good chance it will go into the future parts editions. Many people in the community were involved in the second edition and helped make it more streamlined and easier to navigate.
Q: [Inset Question Here] is in the survey, but it isn’t as important as asking about [Inset Question Here].
A: If we put in every question we had, it would take a very long time to fill out. We made the 2017 survey 5 questionnaires and 124 questions; in 2019 its going to be only 1 questionnaire and 56 questions.
To keep these surveys at a reasonable size, we are have broken up major topics to be spread through future survey versions. The order of questions does NOT mean something in more important.
Hello!
Thank you so much for all the time and energy you’re putting in the puppy research. I’m a relatively new puppy (as of Sept 2017), and taking your surveys (& reading the 2017 report) has helped me better understand my own puppy-ness, as well as learn more about as the puppy community as a whole.
I have been wanting to explore the relationship between ADHD and puppy headspace within the puppy community. I’m a 49-year-old late-diagnosed ADHDer puppy, and I’ve noticed that for me, ADHD and headspace fit so well together that one could almost believe they were made for each other. I’ve tentatively incorporated headspace into my own ADHD therapy with great success, and am wondering if this somewhat unusual mitigation technique could be researched and possibly eventually regularly utilized by other ADHDers lucky enough to have an inner puppy.
I’m not a psychological researcher so don’t have the education or training to put together a meaningful survey, so I want to bounce the concept off of y’all for ideas as to whether this might be a side survey you may be interested in executing, or if not, if you might be aware of a research team that could be. I’d be willing to help in any way I’m capable of.
Why would I be interested in this at all? Well, for me, struggling through life with ADHD has been, at best, like slogging through molasses with shackles on. Being able to drop down onto all four paws has, for me, made it feel less “sloggy” and more fun, which has made it easier to deal with life in general. I would like to help other puppies with ADHD learn how to leverage their headspace as a mental health advantage, and also, I would like to use the resulting research to introduce the ADHD community to human puppy play as a potential coping tool that may work for a lucky subset of them. And of course, the best starting point for either of these goals is probably to coalesce the knowledge already in our community into a scientifically-compliant communication understandable by those in either community unfamiliar with the other phenomenon.
I think it will probably be an intriguing challenge, and I am already looking forward to meeting it head-on, or more appropriately, nose-to-nose.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Thank you!
– PackPuppy Doggybags, Vancouver, BC, Canada