Well I’ve written the survey and sent it to all the students at my school (which is an all-boys school) which is why I have a majority of responses that are males born between 1990–1996! The idea of the survey is to find if people have changed their attitudes to traditional media like newspapers, magazines, TV shows and have started to use more online media like blogs and social networking sites.
This would be fine, except that I also posted a link on Facebook so now I have a majority male but also about 20 females, all of which are over the age of 40 (my uncle sent it on to everyone I think).
I’m not really fussed if I can’t get a more diverse range, I’ll just mention that as I analyse the data. The point is that I might as well try to get as diverse as possible audience for my survey (It’s also been distributed in paper format) so I can compare media use across age-group, gender, country etc.
The thing is that I just sent the link in my Facebook status and via email and got over 80 responses, so I don’t think I particularly need to tempt people into doing it.
There doesn’t seem to be much enthusiasm on Fluther so I think i’ll do another push through Facebook and send out a full address-book email.