I checked the researcher's details and project and it was available in the university website, but of course one can still use that as a decoy to scam. I was curious to see what the survey was about because if it's legit and helps to raise Hive awareness and shitsteem shit show it's in our interest to do it.
I was going to send an email directly to the university to verify this, but someone in Acid's email said they'd done it already so I didn't bother.
So I copied and paste the survey link from the memo and went through all the questions till it asked me for my username. Up to this point they did not ask me to log in. I quit at this point because all the questions were very subjective eg "what % of users do you think .... "
My conclusion is that the survey is based mostly on user sentiment and subjectivity which imho is difficult to generate any useful results for us as a community.
Hi @katerinaramm, I just saw @acidyo's post about this.
Any update on that email?
Thx!
No, and I am very disappointed about it.
I looked up that person, and there is no other email than the one provided by him.
I have received no response yet.
Maybe I should send an email to the supervising professor of the so-called 'study', I think that he is also mentioned.
Yeh worth a try. Would be good to sort this out once and for all..
I tried sending a DM on Discord.
No reply yet.
This is my update after finding the user on Discord:
https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@keys-defender/re-keys-defender-s3wdnm