Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts

Friday, April 4, 2014

Panda Research Scam? Do your Research Now!

Panda Research Scam? Do your Research Now!


If you’ve ever heard of something being a scam, you’ve probably investigated it before trying out the specific product. If you do your research on Panda Research you’ll find no such Panda Research scam even exists.  Panda Research believes your opinion matters and is willing to help you make money to benefit their customers.


You have the power to influence the development of new products and improve existing ones just by working at home. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in focus groups, survey panels and product and service reviews.  The process couldn’t be easier; sign up for your free membership and you’ll gain access to Panda Research’s frequently updated database. Panda Research will contact you from time to time, via e-mail (never filling up your inbox with tons of junk mail)  offering you the chance to participate in web-based surveys. To complete a survey you just have to offer your honest opinion and you’ll be rewarded with cash, product samples, and/or gift certificates. Sound like a Panda Research scam to you? Not to me


The type and amount of incentive vary from survey to survey. $ 1 to $ 75 or more can be yours based on the type and size of the survey. You can also be entered into enormous drawings for some grand rewards.  You also get to keep some product samples from various surveys.


With the current state of the economy many people have suffered income losses. Panda Research allows them a way to bounce back. Amanda Beitzel is just one of those examples. “Panda Research is one of the best survey sites. The product surveys are great, you get to keep the products and get paid for trying them. It’s great for stay at home mothers and anyone who wants to make extra money doing surveys from the comfort of their own home. The extra money has been great for me especially with this hard economy,” says Beitzel.


“TriNi,” writer behind the blog “How to Make Money Online: Free, Fast and Easy!,” compares Panda Research to Vindale and says it just doesn’t match up against Panda Research. “…They (Panda Research) might be a bit better since I found out that they have a lot more surveys available that do not cost any money or require a credit card.” Why would someone say that if Panda Research scam existed?


Panda Research pays you for your opinions. What could be better?  Make money from home  by  making money online with Panda Research.


 



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Friday, August 23, 2013

Harry Potter readers hated George W. Bush, new research suggests

Why do some millennials hate George W. Bush?

A new book by a political science professor, based on a national survey of 1,100 college students conducted over a three-year period, suggests it could have something to do with Harry Potter.

According to Anthony Gierzynski's "Harry Potter and the Millennials: Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation," readers of J.K. Rowling's seven-book series — and viewers of the movie franchise based on them — tend to be "more open to diversity; politically tolerant; less authoritarian; less likely to support the use of deadly force or torture; more politically active; and are more likely to have a negative view of the Bush administration."

A staggering 83 percent of respondents who read all of the Harry Potter books said they viewed the Bush administration unfavorably. And roughly 60 percent said they voted for Barack Obama in 2008, the first year most of them were old enough to vote.

When Bush left office in January 2009, 59 percent of Americans disliked him, according to Gallup. In June, however, the same poll showed 49 percent of Americans now view Bush as favorable, with 46 percent viewing him unfavorably.

According to Gierzynski, who teaches at the University of Vermont, the majority of the 1,100 students who took his survey were the same age as the characters in the series — or about 11 — in 1997, when the first Harry Potter book was released.

“Whether the book provided new perspectives or reinforced those already in their world," Gierzynski writes, "the deep immersion in the story and identification with the characters almost guaranteed an alignment of fans’ perspectives with those of the wizarding world, perspectives that would differentiate them from their nonfan peers." In other words, Harry Potter fans seem to be more socially tolerant — and liberal:

To test whether the acceptance of diversity by Harry and his friends mirrored that of readers, for example, respondents were asked how they felt about groups who have been subject to discrimination in the United States including Muslims, African Americans, undocumented immigrants and homosexuals. Respondents were asked to rate their feelings on a four-point “feeling thermometer” with zero being “very cold or unfavorable feeling” and four representing “100 degrees, very warm or favorable feeling.” After adding up each respondent’s total feeling scores toward all of the groups and comparing the results to non-fans, Gierzynski found that readers of all the books, as compared to the rest of the sample, evinced statistically significant warmer feelings toward the different groups.
It's entirely possible that the same Harry Potter fans would view the Obama administration, or any administration, unfavorably, too. And Gierzynksi acknowledges that it is "impossible to prove that the Harry Potter phenomenon caused fans to view politics in ways that reflect the lessons of the books."

"But," he concludes, "the results of the more rigorous statistical tests that we report on, as well as the words of millennials themselves on this issue, leave us confident that the story of the struggles of the wizarding world against Voldemort did indeed play an important role in the political development of many millennials.”


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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Pet pig Nemo's lymphoma treatment makes research history

By Yasmeen Abutaleb

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When George Goldner went to feed his six pet pigs earlier this year, his 730-pound (331-kg) companion Nemo was acting strangely. Nemo had suddenly stopped eating and laid in the mud.

So Goldner loaded Nemo into a trailer and drove more than two hours to Cornell University Hospital for Animals (CUHA) in Ithaca, New York. There he learned his four-year-old Hampshire pig had what doctors believed was the blood cancer B-cell lymphoma.

The hospital's researchers told Goldner they had never seen a pig treated for cancer. But that did not deter Goldner, a self-described animal lover, who asked doctors to devise a way to treat his pig based on their knowledge of cancer in dogs and humans and not worry about costs.

Now, four months after Goldner first rushed to the hospital, Nemo has made history as the first known pig to undergo lymphoma treatment - and successfully - leaving researchers with hope for advancements in treating cancer in large animals.

"Before when large animals were diagnosed with cancer, it was pretty much impossible to treat them," said Emily Barrell, a resident who picked all of Nemo's chemotherapy drugs and delivered them. "Now we have a model to base it on."

Because pigs have necks bigger than many humans, their veins are difficult to access, Barrell said, making it impossible to deliver many of the aggressive drugs needed for chemotherapy.

Doctors at CUHA consulted with researchers in other fields before implanting a vascular access port, which is a small metal port with a silicone cover, directly under Nemo's skin behind his ear.

The port contained a catheter that ran through a jugular vein in his neck, allowing Nemo to receive the sort of cancer treatment administered to dogs and humans.

Nemo is now believed to be in remission, Barrell said, and will return home in September if everything goes according to plan.

Goldner and doctors at CUHA declined to specify how much Nemo's treatment cost. The cost of chemotherapy for an average-sized golden retriever is $4,000-$5,000 from start to finish, Barrell said, and Nemo is seven or eight times the size of that.

"There were two choices: One was to let him die and the other was to give it a shot," Goldner said in an interview. "Now I think (Nemo) is definitely bound to provide some help."

Though some may criticize the cost of treating such large animals, Barrell said it has become common practice for cat and dog owners to pay for cancer treatment, and it is up to owners to decide how much they are willing to pay.

"This is exactly the type of clinical veterinary research we should be doing to treat disease in other animals," said Justin Goodman, director of laboratory investigation at animal rights group PETA.

Nemo's appetite is back and he's treated like a "big star" at CUHA, Goldner said.

"(Nemo) is a really special story about people being innovative and owners being dedicated," Barrell said.

(Reporting By Yasmeen Abutaleb; Editing by Karey Van Hall and Cynthia Osterman)


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