My dissertation survey - determining back pain

I have done it but most of your questions could be due to so many things, back pain is one but I am not sure what you hope to find out from this, my answers probably wont help, I can and do check my horses regularly but the back is only a tiny part of what could cause certain issues, foot pain is probably just as likely to be the cause.
 
I've done your survey too.

My horse answers in the positive to a lot of the points you've raised. Doesn't like being tacked up, fidgets for a foot trim, has run into canter and can play up when riding. Her problems have recently been tracked down to arthritic hocks. Like BP says above the questions you've asked are not specific to back pain.

BTW - video wouldn't go to full size for me so it was too hard to see
 
I see you are from Writtle College. Have done the survey basing the answers on a horse which I have now, but as she was when she came off your college working livery scheme earlier this year.

Now she has a good farrier, a good EDT, a good saddler and much physio treatment, she is grand.

Couldn't see the video.
 
Done it- not sure my answers will have helped tbh.
I struggled to see the video well even when I got a bigger screen.
The issues you raised I feel can be from many things.
My horse has just had kissing spine surgery and you wouldn't have known if we hadn't done X-rays when investigating her suspensory issues
 
Here we are in dissertation survey season, and I really wonder whether students are getting their surveys looked over by their supervisors before they start distributing them. Do you get taught anything about survey construction OP? It really bothers me that so many of you are not getting proper direction in this.
 
I've done it to the best of my ability but sorry, it's a really poorly thought out survey and I doubt it will tell you anything of use. I'm quite shocked that this is for a final year dissertation, clearly degrees aren't what they used to be!
 
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I have done the survey, if you select to watch on Youtube then you can see the video in full screen.

I don't think the questions will lead you to any firm conclusions. The possible variables are so many, and have not in the main been controlled.
 
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Rowreach said:
Here we are in dissertation survey season, and I really wonder whether students are getting their surveys looked over by their supervisors before they start distributing them. Do you get taught anything about survey construction OP? It really bothers me that so many of you are not getting proper direction in this.
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oldie48 said:
I've done it to the best of my ability but sorry, it's a really poorly thought out survey and I doubt it will tell you anything of use. I'm quite shocked that this is for a final year dissertation, clearly degrees aren't what they used to be!
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I've been thinking the same and trying not to write it. I can't believe this is for a third year of a degree.

Have completed the questionnaire, but only to demonstrate how impossible it will be to draw any sensible conclusions from it. You need to start again, OP, I think.
 
Questions a bit weak, and the video was unwatchably tiny but at least it LOOKED a damn site smarter than surveymonkey. Well done for that.
 
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I've been thinking the same and trying not to write it. I can't believe this is for a third year of a degree.

Have completed the questionnaire, but only to demonstrate how impossible it will be to draw any sensible conclusions from it. You need to start again, OP, I think.
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Not like you to hold back ycbm :D

The ones I've seen so far this year have been all about trying to prove a premise rather than research a subject. The survey construction means the data recovered will be meaningless (unless you apply it to your premise regardless, in which case you can prove whatever you like).
 
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Not like you to hold back ycbm :D

The ones I've seen so far this year have been all about trying to prove a premise rather than research a subject. The survey construction means the data recovered will be meaningless (unless you apply it to your premise regardless, in which case you can prove whatever you like).
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Same here, sorry! Don't these need to go past your supervisor and then an Ethics Committee? Someone ought to have picked up on the leading questions, and many of the things you list could be due to any number of issues besides back pain. Whenever we hit Survey Season on this forum, I despair at the lack of methodological training that undergrads seem to get...and why does it always have to be blimmin' surveys? Surely there are loads of dissertation topics out there in Equine Science that don't require surveys using poorly-digested social science methodology!

Sorry to rant about this a bit...but better you find about the problems now, so you can go back to your supervisor and redesign this study, than getting to writing-up with poor data.

*spookypony tootles off to write blistering email to own dissertation students*
 
I've PMd you, because I feel like my last post was a bit vicious! The survey as is, is inadequate, but hopefully, the criticism offered will help you (and other students who see this thread) to design better surveys.
 
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Same here, sorry! Don't these need to go past your supervisor and then an Ethics Committee? Someone ought to have picked up on the leading questions, and many of the things you list could be due to any number of issues besides back pain. Whenever we hit Survey Season on this forum, I despair at the lack of methodological training that undergrads seem to get...and why does it always have to be blimmin' surveys? Surely there are loads of dissertation topics out there in Equine Science that don't require surveys using poorly-digested social science methodology!

Sorry to rant about this a bit...but better you find about the problems now, so you can go back to your supervisor and redesign this study, than getting to writing-up with poor data.

*spookypony tootles off to write blistering email to own dissertation students*
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I am so glad I don't have students any more :)
 
I am a third year student (not in equine studies) but the way it works for us is we sign ethics forms, the lecturers give us some guidance about questionnaires/surveys and then off we go.
Questions are not checked by lecturers/supervisors.
 
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