On 06/07/15 17:38, Janet wrote:
In article , Eline.10103aa9
@gardenbanter.co.uk says...

Hello all,

I would like to invite you to participate in a survey that is open until
end of July 2015. I am a PhD research student at Coventry University,
doing a three year research on gardening tools

and how they could be
improved, specifically for the ageing population. This survey is being
held to look into people's reasons for gardening and what can keep
people from doing more.

The research is focused on those living in the United Kingdom, which is
how I got to this forum.

If you wouldn't mind helping with this research, you can find the survey
at 'Gardening motivation survey'
(http://gardeningtoolresearch.com/survey).

Thank you!


I looked her up; appears genuine. The survey does not require any ID
details so happy to answer.

You might want to take a look at https://panopticlick.eff.org/. Although
you may not give any personal information for the gardening motivation
survey, if your browser fingerprint is unique, any other website where
you are personally identified in some way will automatically link you to
the browser fingerprint. Of course, the chances of this information
being shared is probably low, but there are all sorts of organisations
out there who just love to get their hands on this useful info.

FWIW, Panopticlick reports for me "Your browser fingerprint appears to
be unique among the 5,549,370 tested so far".

One simple way to get round this is to use a VPN. But then you have to
trust the provider of the VPN... :-)

All that being said, I took the survey and thought it was quite well
designed.

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Jeff