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Item Partnerships in a Data Management Village: Exploring how research and library services can work together(2015) Hofelich Mohr, Alicia; Lindsay, Thomas; Johnston, Lisa RProviding data management services is a task that takes a village; a distributed model of support, involving collaboration among diverse institutional offices, is needed to do it well. Researchers especially benefit when specialized institutional support offices are aware of other relevant providers and the impact their services have on the management of data across the research life cycle. However, once a village is assembled, how do we work with members to be committed collaborators, rather than a passive referral network? In this presentation, we will describe a case study of our in-depth collaboration between the University Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) at the University of Minnesota. Both groups are developing new suites of data management services to meet evolving researcher needs and rising demands for data management support. Working together has provided many advantages for sharing resources and knowledge, but also has presented challenges, including how to define the respective roles of college-level and university-wide data management services, and how formalized collaborations may work. We will describe these challenges and how the collective and complementary skills of our offices will provide researchers with support across much larger portions of the research life cycle than either office could provide alone.Item Recruitment, Participation, and Sampling: Researchers’ Results in General Practice(2011-06-01) Lindsay, Thomas; Sell, AndrewWhile large-scale projects have the resources to ensure best practice, most social science researchers face compromises relating to cost, time, and availability of respondents. We worked with researchers to experimentally test specific approaches to sampling and recruitment. We discuss the results of these tests within the framework of theoretical best practices and expectations.Item Survey of anglers who had a fishing license in the 2018-2019 fishing season(2022-03-28) McEachran, Margaret C.; Hofelich Mohr, Alicia; Lindsay, Thomas; Phelps, Nicholas; Fulton, David; phelp083@umn.edu; Phelps, Nicholas; University of Minnesota Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center; University of Minnesota Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology; University of Minnesota Liberal Arts Technology and Innovation ServicesThis is a dataset containing responses to a 2019 mailed paper survey of recreational anglers in Minnesota, USA. The release of live baitfish by anglers has been identified as a high-risk pathway for aquatic invasive species due to the potential for invasive fish, invertebrates, or pathogens to be release simultaneously with the baitfish. Consequently, the release of live baitfish is illegal in many jurisdictions, but little is known about compliance rates or motivations for illegal release. To assess the incidence of live baitfish release, we administered a mailed survey to a random sample of anglers who held a 2018-2019 annual fishing license and received 681 responses. To mitigate potential recall bias, we also administered 345 intercept surveys at waterbody access sites around the state asking anglers about the current day’s behaviors. Four hundred and eighty-one (72%) of the mailed survey respondents reported that they used live baitfish and of those, 99 (20%) reported that they release their leftover live baitfish into the water at least some of the time. Of the anglers surveyed at waterbody access sites, 59 (19%) were using live baitfish on the day they were surveyed and of those, 11 (18%) released their leftover baitfish into the water. The reasons provided for release included convenience and a misperception that released baitfish benefit the recipient ecosystem. Given the many millions of fishing trips that occur every year, the current rate of illegal baitfish release results in many chances for invasive species introduction. However, there is also significant opportunity for management interventions aimed at changing perceptions and providing convenient disposal alternatives to illegal release to reduce the risk presented by this pathway. This data is being released in accordance with the terms of our funding and to facilitate review of the paper prior to publication.Item Thinking Inside the Box: Data from an Online Alternative Uses Task with Visual Manipulation of the Survey Response Box(2016-09-29) Hofelich Mohr, Alicia; Sell, Andrew; Lindsay, Thomas; hofelich@umn.edu; Hofelich Mohr, AliciaThis study was designed to test whether responses to a divergent thinking task (the Alternative Uses Task, AUT; Guildford, 1967) could be influenced by visual design characteristics of the survey response box. We manipulated the type of response box (whether participants saw one large, essay style box - unsegmented - or whether they saw several small, list-style boxes - segmented; see variable "Segmented") and the size/number of boxes seen (5, 10, or 15 lines or boxes; see variable "Lines"). Participants were recruited from the United States between February and early May, 2014 from Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and completed the task online. They were given two minutes to list as many uses for either a brick or a paperclip (randomized across participants; see variable "Item"), and then were automatically advanced to answer questions about their personality (the 44 item Big Five Inventory; John & Srivastava, 1991) and demographic information (Age, Sex, Education). Judges scored their responses for elaboration, flexibility, and originality.Item Thinking Inside the Box: Visual Design of the Response Box Affects Creative Divergent Thinking in an Online Survey(Social Science Computer Review, SAGE, 2015) Hofelich Mohr, Alicia; Sell, Andrew; Lindsay, ThomasWhile the visual design of a question has been shown to influence responses in survey research, it is less understood how these effects extend to assessment-based questions that attempt to measure how, rather than just what, a respondent thinks. For example, in a divergent thinking task, the number and elaboration of responses, not just how original they are, contribute to the assessment of creativity. Using the Alternative Uses Task in an online survey, we demonstrated that scores on fluency, elaboration, and originality, core constructs of participants’ assessed creative ability, were systematically influenced by the visual design of the response boxes. The extent to which participants were susceptible to these effects varied with individual differences in trait conscientiousness, as several of these effects were seen in participants with high, but not low, conscientiousness. Overall, our results are consistent with previous survey methodology findings, extend them to the domain of creativity research, and call for increased awareness and transparency of visual design decisions across research fields.