Please help AALTO student with research about kids, parents and money

Onks tämä samalla kielitesti?

Why did you not have they survey translated in Finnish if you want a random (or as random as possible) sample of Finnish respondents? There is bound to be major self selection bias if they are expected to answer a survey that is in English. If I was assessing this project I would definitely point out this as a major defect. Your fellow students in Aalto who probably speak good English are not representative of the whole population. Most people have fair knowledge of English, but they might still steer clear of a survey that is not in Finnish.

älä kirjoota tuota ruottia. 

Kaikki opiskelijat Aallolla ei tosiaan ole suomenkielisiä.Aallon tutkimuslinja muutenkin kansainvälinen.En siis ole ap.

[quote author="Vierailija" time="14.05.2015 klo 11:11"]

Why did you not have they survey translated in Finnish if you want a random (or as random as possible) sample of Finnish respondents? There is bound to be major self selection bias if they are expected to answer a survey that is in English. If I was assessing this project I would definitely point out this as a major defect. Your fellow students in Aalto who probably speak good English are not representative of the whole population. Most people have fair knowledge of English, but they might still steer clear of a survey that is not in Finnish.

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Oh come on. As if it would really pay off to go through such trouble for a single course assignment! In my opinion it already shows a decent level of ambition, that the group has prepared a questionnaire online and is asking for comments from strangers.

A vast majority of Finns is nowadays more or less fluent in English, especially concerning the younger generations.

Good luck with your assignment, op!

Onko tämä joku vitsi?

[quote author="Vierailija" time="14.05.2015 klo 11:25"]

[quote author="Vierailija" time="14.05.2015 klo 11:11"]

Why did you not have they survey translated in Finnish if you want a random (or as random as possible) sample of Finnish respondents? There is bound to be major self selection bias if they are expected to answer a survey that is in English. If I was assessing this project I would definitely point out this as a major defect. Your fellow students in Aalto who probably speak good English are not representative of the whole population. Most people have fair knowledge of English, but they might still steer clear of a survey that is not in Finnish.

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Oh come on. As if it would really pay off to go through such trouble for a single course assignment! In my opinion it already shows a decent level of ambition, that the group has prepared a questionnaire online and is asking for comments from strangers.

A vast majority of Finns is nowadays more or less fluent in English, especially concerning the younger generations.

Good luck with your assignment, op!

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Well if the service they are designing is aimed at the Finnish public (if not, they should fish for respondents somewhere else) they really should translate it. There are bound to be Finnish students they know (probably some doing the course too) who can help them, it really should not take much time at all. Whether this is just a minor assigment or a more extensive one, we don't know, but IMHO the attitude that everything is "too much work" is way too common among university students these days. My advice for them is to set their standards a bit higher.

Thank you very much for your replies! We will try to translate it into English!