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I understand the worry about scam surveys, hopefully I can clear up some of your concerns:

1) Students do get different domain emails than staff and the random numbers in the email address is my student number. (I’d much rather they used our names but that’s just the way the university assigned emails are.) It says as much on the TU Dublin website in a few places:

https://www.tudublin.ie/for-students/student-login/city-centre/

https://www.tudublin.ie/emailproject/students/

2) When you send a link to a Google survey, it gives you the option to shorten the URL. The (very long) original URL is docs.google but when you shorten it, it becomes forms.gle . You can check this yourself if you have a google account.

3) Posting a survey online like this does of course mean people can answer falsely or inaccurately, it’s one of the major downsides of anonymous surveys! But this method does also have its strengths and isn’t too uncommon for research like mine, and this isn't the only research method I'm using for the project. Either way, that does seem more a question about the validity of my results than whether the survey is a scam.  

If you going to post surveys please next time have some kind of way to confirm it's real, something like teacher email or topic of project and maybe not using google forms as scammers often use those and they install  Google Analytics to know more stuff.

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I’m not sure what you mean about the topic of the project, I do explain exactly what the research project is in the first line of the blurb at the top of the form?

I’m also uncertain quite how big an issue this is – you’re the first to raise these sort of concerns and I’ve posted this in a lot of places and gotten a fair amount of respondents by now – but I suppose it’s good to play it safe! I’ll take it into account if there’s a next time, thank you.

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