Another day, another survey, lets all play survey bingo so the survey producers can get the result they had in mind before they started. You think I'm joking, sadly not.
That might be the case for consumer surveys but not research surveys - we have research questions, no assumptions. We are simply looking to collect data from farmers on what they do each day whilst working alone and driving heavy machinery. The question we are looking to investigate in terms of comparing responses is whether there are any differences in attitude across male and female farmers - there might be, there might not be, we wont know until we do the analysis. My point is simply that without sufficient numbers of female participants we couldn't do any kind of comparison at all. It might well be that there is no difference in the pattern of responses - and that will be just fine with us. The bigger picture for the study, and the main focus, is gathering information on factors related to situation awareness (what do you look out for, what distracts you, what do you worry about, what do you consider to be a hazard) - which we will report as provided to us. From a research and publication point of view I don't have any agenda in terms of results - I will just report what participants have told us, I think the data will be interesting no matter what.