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Therefore by individuals providing unique nicknames it allows the researchers to put together the responses
of each individual for the various days.
• The use of individual nicknames allows the recording of demographic information such as number of
participants. Also, due to the anonymity involved, individuals may have been more likely to complete the
further demographic information contained in the log forms.
Over the five week period that the SurveyMonkey collector was open individuals volunteered 35 uniquely
separate nicknames, with 20 of the 35 individuals volunteering more than one day’s worth of information and 10
completing at least one work week’s worth of information. Additionally seven days’ worth of information was
volunteered from individuals who decided not to leave a nickname, so it cannot be deemed whether this
information was gathered from one or a number of individuals. In addition to the known 35 online respondents,
four hard-copy participants who each completed 10 days took part in the log phase. Therefore out of possible 181
participants, a minimum of 40 individuals volunteered information (assuming that the non-nicknames responses
were from just one individual). This means that, when taking into account hard copy and online respondents, a
total of 152 days worth of information was gathered.
2) Results
The results of the electronic and hard-copy individual log responses are detailed within section 2) Results,
with responses separated by question. Initially a description as to the number and typology of responses to each
question is given, as well as an explanation of the nature of each question. Finally the main and most important
findings are given together with example quotations from various participants.