Anonymous Online Databases: A Case Study

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19 college students of Florida State College at Jacksonville participated in an anonymous online survey which collected zero demographical information. The students were handed a physical laptop in class and asked to answer the 10 survey questions they saw on the screen. This survey was handed out 5 after Hurricane Matthew passed by the Florida Coast (Hurricane caused a loss internet, power and cellphone service for some parts of the area).

Procedure A survey was created using the datacollection program Survey Monkey. The survey asked 10 questions based off of The Psychometric Properties of the Internet Addiction Test (Widyanto & McMurran 2004), and the IAT (Young, 1998). The survey administered to the participants

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