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Hello again Ireland!

Do you have an opinion about the current government? Or maybe you would like a chance to win some gold? Perhaps both? If so, I invite you to take a few minutes to participate in my monthly government performance survey.







This quick and painless survey will give you the opportunity to evaluate the recent performance of:

1) Ireland as a whole
2) The CP
3) All head ministers
4) Congress


Anyone who considers themselves to be an active part of the eIrish community is welcome to take the survey. However only current Irish citizens are allowed to win gold (details below).


BONUS SECTION

In addition to rating government officials, each month I also like to include a unique and fun bonus section.

In the last survey (which I am embarrassed to admit that I am still working on analyzing) participants had the opportunity to weigh in on the debate about MrConway. In the current survey, you will have the opportunity to answer various questions about your eRepublik political orientation/priorities, as well as your general personality. The goal is to see if Irish parties are actually sorted on any of these variables.




GOLD PRIZES!

As always, in order to encourage maximum participation I am offering the chance to win gold prizes to those who complete this survey. This month, winners who complete the survey and elect to be in the raffle will have the opportunity to win:

5 people: 2 gold each.
2 people: 5 gold each.



Fine print: Although anybody who considers themselves to be an active part of the Irish community are welcome to take the poll, only current Irish citizens are eligible to be entered into the raffle. Winners are randomly chosen by assigning each participant a number based on the order they took the survey and then generating random numbers within that range using the random number generator at www.random.org. All winners are publicly recognized in the analysis article unless they specifically request to remain anonymous.





THIS MONTH'S SPONSORS:

A very special thanks goes out to those who donated gold to help sponsor this month's survey. Donations this month were at an all-time high, which allowed us to raise our prize totals to 20 gold (versus 15 gold last month and 10 gold the month before).

EmperorPalpatine: 10 gold donation


Grainne Ni Mhaille: 2.5 gold donation


Mary Robinson: 1 gold donation


If you wish to help sponsor the September survey, please send me a PM! Because we do not accept government funding for obvious reasons, the prize money for each month (and thus the success of this survey) is completely dependent on private donations. The more prize money we can give away, the more people will take the survey and the more meaningful your own responses will be.

All full record of past donations and prize winners is available here.





ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Survey program:



Rather than using a simple Google Form like I have in some of my past surveys, I currently use a more professional-quality program that I have some real-life experience with called “Qualtrics”. The advantages of this program are a more flexible user interface (I think you will like it), better analytics, and better security and fraud prevention. This program tracks metadata and will not allow more than one response per computer, so multis beware!

Anonymity:

Although the program has built-in ways to combat fraud, we still require that you provide a link to your eRepublik profile in the survey in order to verify that you are an Irish citizen. This means that your answers are not technically anonymous. This is of course not ideal for an opinion survey, but in my judgment it is better than leaving the survey open to fraud and abuse. However, you can rest assured that personal identifying information collected in this survey will never be published or shared with anyone besides myself or those few people I trust to help out with analysis (who will always be fully-disclosed).





Thank you for in advance for taking this survey!

Regards,
-Stilpo





PLEASE DO WHAT YOU CAN TO GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT THIS SURVEY! Just taking the survey is only the first step! The more you shout and share with your friends, the more people will take this survey and the more meaningful the results will be!


List of previous surveys:

[July 2013] National Performance Poll #3
[June 2013] National Performance Poll #2
[May 2013] National Performance Poll #1

[Nov 2012] Saoirse party performance survey
[Nov 2012] Government roles and responsibilities Survey
[Oct 2012] Policy opinion survey
[Oct 2012] Desirable traits for congress members