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Right guys,
thank you for your replies..

I will re-do the questionnaire, but in the mean time, if you have anything to say about the subculture of GW , feel free to share here.

Thank you

This is a terribly vague survey. You're asking participants to put more effort into answering than you put into writing it.

And jeez, if this is your MA dissertation, would it kill you to use a spell and grammar check?

I don't usually harp out on it, but this is is a dissertation and if you can't be bothered to make clean, why the hell should we bother?

Got as far as the 'subculture' question and stopped - it's way too vague! Couldn't decide if you meant:

- What sort of people play war-games
- How does the community (culture) function
- How is the GW side of this different from, say, the Infinity side
- How is it perceived

TBH, I'd try and be a lot more specific with your questions!

Ian

I'm guessing English isn't your first language? If it's not, you really need to get someone to proof read it before you post it.

And I agree with others in being more specific with your questions. They way you've done it at the moment you aren't going to get many respondents or useful answers, and if you do get a lot of respondents you're going to spend a year trying to break down the responses and make something useful of them.

Your survey really does need a lot of work. If you haven't read it, I would recommend picking up Learning From Strangers for help on how to word questions so that when you are done you have information you can process well and really analyze. Really you have to know exactly what sort of data you need before you even start writing or else you come out with a lot of stuff that is nearly what you need, but of course can't be augmented because you can't interview the same people over, etc. My PhD dissertation adviser made that mistake lately and spent 9 months trying to figure out how to make a survey contain information it just didn't, much to everyone's consternation. There is a lot of good information to be had just from general information and a wealth of anecdotes, but a specific structure in answers is needed to really be able to do analysis, and you only get that structure if the questions are built properly.

Has your MA adviser helped you out with this? If so... you might consider finding a new one, or at least another professor specialized in survey work to help out. It seems likely that your current adviser is unable or unwilling to give you the sort of guidance you need here, and unfortunately it falls to you to correct that. :(

Good luck to you!