13th December 2008, 10:57 AM
Dave, whilst I appreciate you're speaking tongue in cheek, and yes it is biographical info... Profiling the profession, and the invisible diggers surveys both took a lot of information and provide extensive and thought-provoking statistics that are well worth looking through in detail.
In order that this e-survey doesn't merely duplicate the IFA/Paul's results, I was suggesting some complementary questions that may help us understand issues that 'we' feel exist in archaeology, i.e. job mobility aka 'the circuit', injuries/poor health aka archaeologists always have bad knees and backs, and housing problems....more relevant than religious belief to me?
This does have a serious point. If we want to lobby for better conditions etc then we need to know what the existing issues are. Now this e-survey won't be statistically valid, unlike the IFA survey, but if Matthew gets 'interesting' results from his survey, then perhaps we can persuade the IFA to include those questions in the next Profiling the Profession?
That's got to be worth it, no?
In order that this e-survey doesn't merely duplicate the IFA/Paul's results, I was suggesting some complementary questions that may help us understand issues that 'we' feel exist in archaeology, i.e. job mobility aka 'the circuit', injuries/poor health aka archaeologists always have bad knees and backs, and housing problems....more relevant than religious belief to me?
This does have a serious point. If we want to lobby for better conditions etc then we need to know what the existing issues are. Now this e-survey won't be statistically valid, unlike the IFA survey, but if Matthew gets 'interesting' results from his survey, then perhaps we can persuade the IFA to include those questions in the next Profiling the Profession?
That's got to be worth it, no?