Autism research Please help me with my Data!

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Hi there, my names Amy Bayes.

I am currently undertaking a BA Behavioural Studies degree at Truro/Penwith college.
Part of this degree is to choose a subject of my choice to research and write up as a dissertation report.
Due to having Family Member and several friends with Autism i have chosen to study the effect of diagnosis on Autism/ Aspergers and individual personality types.

This questionnaire is for Adults (18+)
I would really appreciate it if you could take some time to complete my survey - and the myers briggs personality test attached to it.
should take approx 10-25 minutes to do both

All issues of confidentiality, ethics and description are adressed on the questionaire

here is the link https://eSurv.org?s=LHKKFK_d62cb5ba

thank you very much for reading

I checked the rules and i did not see anything against posting research, but of course if this is against the rules of the forum I sincerely apologise and please do take this post down

Kind Regards Amy

Just out of curiosity, do you believe that the MBTI has some kind of validity? If so, why?

Edited to add: Survey done. I look forward to seeing your results in some form.

hi there
Thank you very much for taking part in the survey
The MBTI is one of those contentious personality tests. however the question of validity is not necessarily important to my research. it is more of a comment on how people test personality.
I will attempt to explain

The course I am doing is heavily leached in behaviourism.
As well as trying to explore issues with diagnosis, the origins of Autism and biological/psychological aspects, the main purpose of this research is too explore a social side of diagnosis.
As such the MBTI is used because it highlights a personality type heavily based on social norms, with this said 30% of my literature review is exploring the reliability and validity of test's like the MBTI, but in terms of the survey, this test is used to highlight common personality differences.
Mainly the only info from the MBTI I will be using is the Introversion/Extroversion scale - as this is the only part of the MBTI suggested to be reliable through numerous research.

Thanks for the explanation!

I don't dispute the introversion part of MBTI at all. The other scales don't seem meaningful or accurate to me and I often score differently on them--I am both thinking and feeling, sensing and judging.... INTJ, INFP, etc.

Survey done, pleased to be of help

Same here. Hopefully, we get to read the results of your findings.

Done, good luck with your research.

Done.

Done

Will you be doing Bayesian analysis?

:gets coat:

Nice one!

Darn it, I can't do any of these surveys because I'm not old enough.

:O bayesian analysis sounds amazing..

It is now my life goal to become a very successful researcher so I can create this analysis!

Thank you so much to everyone who has completed my survey

Aren't questions 8 and 12 the same?

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BayesianAnalysis.html

Nice. I was about to post this one:
http://bayesian.org/Bayes-Explained

I'm glad you posted the Wolfram link because I now want to check out those episodes of "numb3rs," a program I was unaware of.