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From: adhar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Adam Noel Harris)
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Subject: Re: IRC questionnaire
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Diane Whiting (rdktjwh@rivernet.com.au) said this stuff:

: HI, I am a 4th year psych student who needs to develop profiles on typical
: IRC users.  Please consider answering the following questions it will not
: take a lot of time.  

: The first step is to think about the type of people who communicate on the
: chat lines:

: 1.  Please identify the common types of users found on the IRC?

a) Normal people.
b) Psych students.

: 2.  Describe each type of person in enough detail to give a clear picture.

a) Normal people are just your everyday, average, run-of-the-mill folk.  I
   once did a study of normal people by asking my friends to describe what
   normal people are like.  I got some really good data from that!
b) Psych students are typified by laziness and an unwillingness to do any
   work.  They commonly take surveys which don't have a snowball's chance
   of returning accurate information.  They can be easily spotted when
   they enter a channel and say "Please send your conversations to my
   email address, as my project is due tomorrow morning but I can't be
   bothered to participate in an actual 'chat line.'"

: 3.  Assign a single identifying label to each user type by the typical
: nickname they would choose on the IRC.

a) Normal people - "Joe/Jane_Doe"
b) Psych students - "HornyFem"

: Please answer these questions and email your answers to me as soon as
: possible.  Thank you for your assistance 

YM "I need to develop profiles on typical IRC users by tomorrow.  Please
email me as many profiles as you can tonight and I will paste them into my
'paper.'  Thanks so much; I promise to share my future earnings from the
degree I get as a result of your hard work."

HTH.

-Adam

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