Posts by JW_Researcher

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Academic Survey: Ex-JW Participants Needed

by JW_Researcher in

im conducting an exploratory survey for a methodology class.. there are 20 questions.

all answers are strictly confidential.. neither i nor anyone else will be able to identify a survey participant.

no ip address will be logged.

JW_Researcher

Sorry I posted to your first question before I saw this comment.

Ooopps! That survey doesn't look confidential to ME! I think many on this board will agree that raising children in a JW environment is, to be polite, not the best and the survey in my opinion exposes as a weakness that other's can exploit. Not that they aren't working hard on it already.

The survey is completely confidential. If you individually feel uncomfortable, please don't participate. It's completely voluntary.

It is unethical to claim confidentiality where none exists. Universities (at least the universities with which I've been associated) don't tolerate misrepresentation of that type.

Please describe how this could be "exploited." Thank you.

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Academic Survey: Ex-JW Participants Needed

by JW_Researcher in

im conducting an exploratory survey for a methodology class.. there are 20 questions.

all answers are strictly confidential.. neither i nor anyone else will be able to identify a survey participant.

no ip address will be logged.

JW_Researcher

Will the results, now that you have displayed them, benifit the JWs in any way?

Perish the thought! I can't imagine that it will benefit JWs in any way. No one is identified and no one is identifiable. Do you have a thought regarding how the results might benefit JWs in some way?

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Academic Survey: Ex-JW Participants Needed

by JW_Researcher in

im conducting an exploratory survey for a methodology class.. there are 20 questions.

all answers are strictly confidential.. neither i nor anyone else will be able to identify a survey participant.

no ip address will be logged.

JW_Researcher

The sheet would not upload

I too had a problem, but it was only after I attempted to submit it, it never finished it kept saying "waiting" and then my computer crashed and I had to reboot, so now I am a little frightened to try it again. Any suggestion on what might have happened (yes, I recognize it could be user error, but considering I did not have to do anything other than press some buttons, I cannot imagine how I screwed that one up).

I just tried it and it seems to be working fine. Perhaps it was down for a bit (as happens here at JWD from time to time)? I'm not certain.

Please try again. Your input is valuable.

Thank you.

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Academic Survey: Ex-JW Participants Needed

by JW_Researcher in

im conducting an exploratory survey for a methodology class.. there are 20 questions.

all answers are strictly confidential.. neither i nor anyone else will be able to identify a survey participant.

no ip address will be logged.

JW_Researcher

60 responses...thanks very much.

Looks like 3 of 4 of us were married for at least part of our stint as JWs.

</form>

04. Did you spend any of your time as a JW as a married person?

Answer	Count	Percent
No	16	26.67%
Yes	44	73.33%

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Academic Survey: Ex-JW Participants Needed

by JW_Researcher in

im conducting an exploratory survey for a methodology class.. there are 20 questions.

all answers are strictly confidential.. neither i nor anyone else will be able to identify a survey participant.

no ip address will be logged.

JW_Researcher

I just checked and there are 48 respondents so far! That's fantastic.

As I mentioned, this is an exploratory survey. I'm going to generate a paper and demonstrate different approaches of statistical analysis. The purpose of the survey, then, is to provide me with data for this class but also to, hopefully, be heuristic for a future study.

My area is communication so my studies have to be communication related. Some of the stuff I've done in the past has not required quantitative analysis ...but this class does.

At any rate, I'll be happy to post aggregated results (so no one can be identified) and yes, Jeff, you passed the test.

One "cell" which is a bit small is the "I became a JW as an adult." The following chart shows most respondents where raised as a JW.

Thanks again for the support.

</form>

01. Were you raised as a JW?

Answer	Count	Percent
No, I became a JW as an adult	10	20.83%
Yes, my one or both of my parents were JWs when I was 10 years old or younger	2	4.17%
Yes, my one or both of my parents were JWs when I was 15 years old or younger	1	2.08%
Yes, my one or both of my parents were JWs when I was 20 years old or younger	1	2.08%
Yes, my one or both of my parents were JWs when I was 5 years old or younger	34	70.83%

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Academic Survey: Ex-JW Participants Needed

by JW_Researcher in

im conducting an exploratory survey for a methodology class.. there are 20 questions.

all answers are strictly confidential.. neither i nor anyone else will be able to identify a survey participant.

no ip address will be logged.

JW_Researcher

9 responses already! Thanks very much!

It should only take 3 or 4 minutes to complete the survey.

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Academic Survey: Ex-JW Participants Needed

by JW_Researcher in

im conducting an exploratory survey for a methodology class.. there are 20 questions.

all answers are strictly confidential.. neither i nor anyone else will be able to identify a survey participant.

no ip address will be logged.

JW_Researcher

Greetings,

I’m conducting an exploratory survey for a methodology class.

There are 20 questions. All answers are strictly confidential.

Neither I nor anyone else will be able to identify a survey participant. No IP address will be logged. No identifying information will be collected.

If you would like to participate please visit http://intercom.virginia.edu/SurveySuite/Surveys/JWD

Please PM me with any questions.

Thank you for your time.

Steve

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COMF: Who's still here?

by COMF in

jw
friends

hi, ya'll.

i left jw's voluntarlily in 1987, still believing but thinking something was wrong with me that caused jehovah to reject me in spite of my best effforts.

after that it was "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die".

JW_Researcher

I remember you from the old H2O Board.

Captain of my Fate, right?

You were articulate and a joy to read. You are one of the few I remember from that board by name. "You Know" is another.

Best wishes.

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Jw scholar Rolf Furuli of Oslo University

by Jeepthing in

jw
friends

anyone here heard of jw scholar rolf furuli of oslo university?

found him in www.jehovah'sjudgment.co.uk.

interesting site on 607 bce.

JW_Researcher

There is no possessive apostrophe in the URL http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/

Only one article was located:

Title:	The Problem of Induction and the Hebrew Verb
Author(s):	Furuli, Rolf
Source:	Built on Solid Rock: Studies in Honor of Professor Ebbe Egede Knudsen p 82-90. Oslo: Novus, 1997. OTA0000001144
Publication Year:	1997
Language:	English
Subjects:	Archaeology, Epigraphy, Philology
Abstract:	F.'s essay discusses the verbal system of Biblical Hebrew from the vantage point of the philosophy of science. According to F., the problem of induction (i.e., that we cannot be sure that an interpretation of a set of data is the right one because there are other possible interpretations) was ignored when the four-component verbal model (Imperfect, Imperfect consecutive, Perfect and Perfect consecutive) for Biblical Hebrew took shape. F. goes on to provide background on how the understanding of the Hebrew verbal system evolved, reviews the shift to an aspectual understanding of the system, describes attacks against the four-component model, and offers suggestions for future research. What is needed, says F., is a 'study which maps all the occurrences of verbs in the Hebrew Bible, DSS, Hebrew inscriptions and Ben Sirah, and comparing the four-component model and the assumptions behind it with these data' (p. 87). [Abstracted by: Ben A. Asen.] Abstract Number: OTA22-1999-FEB-125
Publication Type:	Essay
Issued by ATLA:	20050715
Accession Number:	*OTA0000007829*
Database	Old Testament Abstracts

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In need of Literature

by loosie in

jw
friends

i'm pretty sure my fade in this town is sucessful.

i would like to have the january '07 and feburary '07 watchtowers and the latest library cd.

i don't want to go back to the kh to get them.. i have two friends who are still in ( they think i am in too).

JW_Researcher

If I go back to the KH I will be put on their radar again. It took me a long time to get off their radar.

I don't care about their "radar" but I don't want to answer a bunch of questions...or be the victim of love-bombing. I could easily pick a KH where no one knows me.

Has anyone every picked up literature at the KH with little or no "interference"?