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survey on bassist and college

sharp8874

sharp8874

Jan 10, 2011
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#1
Hi there, i am am doing a survey for my sociology class about the trends of bass players going to college and am using the talkbass community as the study group.
So if you could take 5 minutes to complete the survey in the link below, your time and help would be greatly appreciated :bassist:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zzxOt1lBC7D0bt7A6xayWQV3GGkpzTHzE9MX4VAzqFk/viewform

Disclaimer:any personal information that you include for some reason(your name, your pets name, your SSN) i will delete from the responses because i do not want it. any relevant data that i do get will be anonymous and only shared as numbers in a presentation with my class.
 
#5
Submitted. Assuming you're doing this as part of a study, would you mind posting the findings here when it's done? I'm sure some of us are interested about who the players in our coming generation really are.

If not that, then at least let us know if there are any girls around :D
 
#6
Done.

Also, your professor will probably tell you this, but keep in mind that since you are sampling from TB, you'll have to treat TB as your population. If you try to extrapolate to the entire population of bass players, you could run into some major external validity problems. And also keep in mind that self selection can create internal validity problems (but there's not much you can with that since you can't force anyone to participate).
 
#12
Agreed about the questions. For example, "Do you consider yourself a successful musician?" means a whole lot of different things. Having a whole lot of fun after working all day in a day job can be one kind of successful musician and making money playing music for whoever, wherever, and just doing it for the money is another kind of successful musician. If you can make a living playing and have a blast doing it, then that's the most successful musician.
 
#16
For example, your questions aren't going to give you any kind of breakdown of WHAT collegiate level involvement folks have. You don't know if they went to a Conservatory, a large university with a conservatory program, a large university with an emphasis on music, a large university that has a music program but is known for emphasis in other areas, a small university with an emphasis on its music program, a small university that offers a music program but has emphasis elsewhere, a state university, a state college. You also don't account for any attendance to non - collegiate but music education programs like the Musician's Institute, Player's School etc. Likewise you collect no information on workshop attendance, private study, masterclass attendance etc.
And as gaolee mentioned, an open ended and vague question isn't serving you well. If you want information about how specific level of music education links to specific level of professional achievement, then you need to clarify that as well - level of income from performance, breadth of musical style (e.g. Please check all boxes that describe musical groups with which you play or perform: symphony orchestra, community orchestra, chamber group, big band, popular music combo {jazz/rock/pop/bluegrass/etc}, original music group {jazz/rock/pop/etc.}), in addition to the number "live shows" (and again, the more you differentiate between festival, concert, club, private event, house concert, school event the better your information will be) will give you a more focused response.
 

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