Survey For AS Women

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https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DZS5HPF

Hello Ladies,

I have a big favor to ask you: I have made a 6-question survey for one of my courses this month, and I need at least 10 participants. The survey is completely anonymous; no names will be mentioned, I'm simply collecting data for a paper I am writing. No right or wrong answers, you just click on the answer that best fits how you feel about the question.

Thank You!

My goodness, 6 of you responded already. Now I just need 4 more! Thank you, I really appreciate it!

I'll take a few minutes to fill it out. Good luck on your paper.

Hi PS

If you are getting lots of results quickly, I'd try to get more than 10, as that's not a very representative sample. With free text boxes it would probably give you some good insight, but with the restricted responses it might not tell you much with just 10 respondents.

Question 2 in particular...you haven't listed "because ASD is more prevalent in males". I'm not saying any of your respondents would pick that answer, but there certainly are plenty of people who believe this is true.

That's very sweet of you, Thank You very much!

So far the number is sitting at about 13; my instructor told us as long as we had 10 participants or more it would be sufficient enough for the overall assignment (term paper). I am torn between numbers. I'll check back in the morning and see if it has grown any, placing 20 as my cap.

Where question two in concerned, I worded it that way on purpose. From everything I have read (and heard) the diagnosis goes primarily to men, and the ratio for men with ASD as opposed to women is all over the place. Some say 4:1, others say 2:1 or 16:1...there is no definite number, only the fact that women tend to fall through the cracks as far as ASD is concerned, which is why my paper is all about women who have it.

You did it! You guys helped me reach my goal for the survey! I want to thank those of you who participated, you were a great help, and I appreciate that you took the time to do this for me. Thank you so much! Enjoy the Monday off!

Kindest, personal regards,

-Painfully Shy

Exploring why females are potentially under-diagnosed is a great topic to explore (I examined it somewhat in my honours thesis a few years ago). I do understand that is what you were getting at with that question, however I haven't heard anyone suggest a ratio of 1:1 for actual prevalence of ASD between the sexes, therefore I think many experts still believe that the reason males are diagnosed more often than females is partly because there are more males who have the disorder. You want to be asking why females might be under-diagnosed, not why they are diagnosed less often.

Anyway, would love to hear the results if you are willing to report on them

Aha! Now I understand; I'm sorry, I was working late on my homework for the course as it was due last night by midnight, so I was more asleep than awake half the time, lol. I will go back and re-word that for the final paper, thanks so much for the suggestion. It was difficult to word some of the questions: I didn't want them to be confusing, and I didn't want to offend anyone either. Again, thank you for the wording, that's what I was trying to say when i formed that question

And yes, I would love to share what I find out. I'll be sure to post it when this assignment's over. I have to run another survey on my other group, the "public" as it were. I'll let you know how that goes, too