Saturday, September 02, 2006

surveys

We have a subject on Individual Dynamics in this term. Its again a pretty interesting subject. It was in this subject that I came to know that the first impressions which a person forms is a function of his dominant set of values and perceptions. These impressions might change over time according to the characteristics of the individual forming them, but then the formation of the impressions is a more or less reflex action that most of us dont have much of a control on (unless ofcourse our value system and perception set changes over time, which is happening for me, at least as far as perceptions are concerned).
In this subject, we also get to see movies once in a while. These movies are to show the various ways dynamics work among individuals.

But then all the above is not the prime topic of this post. This post is about this survey we were required to conduct as part of our course in Individual Dynamics. Each group (our class is divided into 15 groups...i think its 15 :o)) was supposed to take some aspect of Individual Dynamics or some issue or some topics, and conduct a survey, and present the findings.

Our survey was based on Value systems. Now there are different types of value systems etc etc. For all that u can go to the net. But then I just wanted to write about the survey we conducted.

We (two of my group members actually. Most credit goes to them for designing the major part of the survey and for coming up with the idea for the topic) actually designed questions for the survey, with five alternatives. Each respondent was supposed to give weightage from 1 to 5 to the various alternatives. Each alternative corresponded to a different value class. So based on the total weightage given to a value class, we could determine the value system ie how much each value set meant to the the population of the survey in general.

We divided the population of our survey into two groups. One with 5+ yrs of industry exp. and the others with <2 yrs. We managed to get 10+ yrs of exp people to respond coz one of our group mates is an assistant general manager in the RBI :o) (now u see i have clout :o))

It was a nice experience (though i never did much of anything). Esp the presentation part. I am getting over my presentation phobia :o).

This post might have looked arbit to u. But then....my blog....my posts :o)
MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Blogger Hitchhiker said...

The first thing that came to mind was "Networking" !!! :) Glad you are having fun. So which value came out tops for both category or am I not allowed to ask?
And bout first impressions, reminds me of our debates :)

1:29 PM  
Blogger Anurag said...

bout first impressions...like u said....people do make first impressions.....everyone does....that is wat theory says....did i mention in the post that its up the people then to change their impressions with time or hang on to them

8:05 AM  

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