@iShop123 wrote:
Haven't heard from my "normal" scheduler for their easy shop in over a week. She usually writes back quickly. Somebody is assigning, but only the normal amount ones. Anyone else being ignored, or did I forget to shower again?
There is a rotation of 18 or 20 days, I'm told, between any data collection visits to a given site, not just per field researcher, or since your last visit. It's not published anywhere, just shared by a scheduler once, so I don't know how widely it's enforced or waived. You're probably not being ignored. They just don't have everything in writing, so having to divine the deeper motives is your mystery assignment. I hate it when my telepathy isn't working. Don't you?
I have always thought aggregated data on objective compliance standards, (i.e. was the flag flying, was there a name tag, were there posters in the proper place) should not require rotation. It's not an opinion survey. It's nearly 100 percent objective, fact-based. Rotation shouldn't matter because it only shows on a feedback report as "The flag was flying 100% of the time. Clerks wore name tags 98% of the time. Clerks asked the hazmat question 100% of the time." It really doesn't matter who captured the data or how frequently. In fact, the larger the sample, and the higher the frequency, the better for research purposes. But that's the way they claim they're doing it. It could be a matter of budget and not research method or design, too. Maybe they need a budget increase for people standing in line waiting to be assigned.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 02/26/2018 06:34AM by Researcher01.