Typeface Dissertation survey

bailey97

Please take 2 minutes to answer this survey regarding the chosen typeface. This forms part of my research for my dissertation. Thank you

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGZ2BP0svA0mNx7TiXHGNY_svWnk3VT6McYeTybTh9alplhA/viewform

Rafael Saraiva

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Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

Done!

@Rafael Saraiva Seconded.

@George Thomas I'm curious why you marked it as Abuse.

George Thomas

It appears to be spam to me, but since then I realize I may be wrong. I've asked a Mod to remove the Flag.

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Ben Blom

The font-related questions are without any depth. The question about Gill’s private life is more like a tabloid story. These are not questions for a serious dissertation. I think the one who made this up, is trying to make fun. Spam!

John Hudson

I agree that it's pretty meagre stuff, and doesn't seem very well thought out in terms of what responses might reveal, if anything. I don't think that means it is spam, or someone making fun. I declined to fill in the questionnaire because I could think of too many different ways to qualify responses, none of which the questionnaire provided a way to express. It's a very blunt instrument.

As for the question relating specifically to Gill's sexual activities, we know the record of these stated in his diaries and reported in his biography, and if the purpose of the questionnaire is to gather data about how knowledge of those activities influence people's attitude to using Gill's typefaces, the question would be better if it simply stated that record, rather than colouring it with the unattributed opinion 'Eric Gill is likened to a modern-day Jimmy Savile [sic].' If the point of the questionnaire is to interrogate what people think about Gill's actions, don't tell them what to think.

Theunis de Jong

I regard these questions "leading" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_question); they seem to aim to confirm what the questionnaire writer already thinks about Eric Gill.

But maybe I'm just cranky because I identified that font as "Century Gothic" before encountering the next questions. Then I went "oh wait a minute..."

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

Luckily I have no idea who Jimmy Savile is (and have better things to do than look him up). Anyway I enjoyed ranking Gill Sans above those two dogs (pardon the pun).

James Hultquist-Todd

Unless bailey97 changes their username in the next day or two, this thread will likely be considered spam by the admin team.

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Thomas Phinney

Or respond to the survey with a note that this post doesn't meet the forum rules.

Thomas Phinney

(I've actually done this.)

Ray Larabie

Wouldn't a "modern day Jimmy Savile" have to come after Jimmy Savile? Maybe an old timey Jimmy Savile. Or perhaps, like a Jimmy Savile of old. I think I've put twice as much thought into this as bailey97 put into the survey.