Going Through Survey Responses!

Thank you to everyone who has participated in the survey for taking your time on the survey, and your bravery to share your experiences with various challenges! I have received fifty-four responses at the time of writing. The vast pool of responses will enable me to better assess the challenges faced by people in my communities.

I first looked at the suggested length of my writing since the responses have already been visually represented by Google Forms. Around fifty-four percent of survey participants are willing to read each of my posts for around four to seven minutes, while around twenty-seven percent of participants are willing to read for one to three minutes. Therefore, I will try to keep each of my posts between three to five minutes moving forward.

Once I determined the approximate length of my posts, I began to analyze the various challenges my survey participants are curious to learn how to better combat through the lens of philosophy.

I first ranked all the challenges included as multiple choices in the survey by the number of votes each of them received, from the most popular to the least popular. From the listing of responses, I find “procrastination and the lack of motivation” to be the most common challenge faced by around eighty percent of participants of my survey. From the listing of responses, I find “procrastination and the lack of motivation” to be the most common challenge faced by around eighty percent of participants of my survey.

Moving on from the given choices of challenges, I attempted to categorize the individual responses of the challenges participants are experiencing by going through each response individually. I combined the lack of social connections, loneliness, and the dwindling friendship together as one challenge since these challenges are interconnected and often overlapping. Some challenges are only reported by a small number of survey participants, such as “how to be content with the self”, “the need to feel in control and the anxiety that arises from the lack of control”, and “maintaining positivity during the pandemic”. Nevertheless, the challenges I faced myself during the pandemic resonated profoundly with those challenges. Therefore, I hope to write about how philosophies may help combat those challenges in the future.

While compiling the challenges, I have collected the contact information provided by participants who are willing to share more about their experience alongs with the challenges they are experiencing. Moving forward, I hope to interview some, if not all, of them about their experience and how they, perhaps, have been coping with the challenges themselves.

How My Spreadsheet Is Organized

Last but not least, I compiled all of the information into a Google Sheet for the ease of future access (link in my Signature Google Doc). In my upcoming meetings with my manager and liaison, I hope to devise ways I can best approach others for my interview and brainstorm potential philosophies that address challenges indicated in the survey responses.

A timelapse of part of my sorting process: