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~~whosesuweyswereretumedto~wereiTlanediatelysentasecond
P administration with an explanatory letter. ByJuly 5, 30 secondreturns
were received and used for analysis.
For this research effort, printed swxeys for the P-C -bEnt were handdelivered
to the Survey control Officers ax Bery&rm Kelly, aMI Randolph
?d?E6. !Ihe cmputerized version was then giv& within'2-4 weeks folluihg the
paper administration. For all ccaqxterized administrations, local Z-248
Ew?sonal~(pcs)wereused. Each xxspotient used a separate disk for
taking the sumey. For the C-P treatmsnt a reverse process wasusedstarting
withE&wksandLacklandAFBs. Allpapsrversionsbiemmachine-scannedby
~tocreateadatafileondisk,~~wasthenma~arrdmergedwiththe . .
datastrings collectedviatheFCs.
Results
Any inteqxetationofthedatamsttah intoacccuntthatthe Chapel
Mamgement Specialw, selected forconveniencemaynotbegenemlly
mqmsentative of all Air Fame jobs. Sewti, themmberofairmen forea&
treatment was sndll. CIhhd, there is no "correct" oridedl selection of
eitherjcbtas~ortherelativethespentratings,hence statisticsthat
relyoncentraltendemy cculdnotbeused. Finally, arnmberofmre
qualitative techniques such as "think aloud" protccols or follow-up
questionnairesthatcouldhaveaddmssed sane of the ~issuesraisedby
the5edatawerenotpossible inthegivmthe frame.
Table 1sumnarizesdataintenrksofthetotal numberoftaskssel~by
all individuals for each administration, the mean number of tasks selected by
ea~person,thepercentoftasksselectedinboththefirstandsecond
administrations, andthemeanchange innuinberoftasks selededper
individual.
Table1
summary of TaskSelectionData
N=30 N=17 N=17
Treatment Pl - P2 Pl - C2 Cl - P2
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Total tasks select. 3,684 3,878 1,808 1,950 2,418 2,267
Mean each respond. 123 129 106 115 142 133
Selectedbothadm. 81% 82% 75%
-change . +6.5% +8.4% -8.9% .
. Anotherresearchissuewaswhether, forthejobtasksselectedby
InWmbents, theestimatesof"TimeSpentin PresentJob"wouldvaKyasa
function of type of admhhtmtion. (This isestimatedwithaninepoint
scale:l= "VeKy small amount"). Table2showsthechangeinratingsfrm~e
first administration to the secmd where, for example, for the Pl - P2
administration of 2,988 tasks chosen, 1,283 time ratings were the same, 387
taskswereratedonepointhi~~formoretimespent, 342 wereratedorle
Point lower forlesstime spent, etc.
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