Abandoned puppy

Somewhere in January, a cute little puppy was abandoned by some irresponsible person in my neighbourhood. The puppy (below) has now grown up a bit.

From what I see, stray dogs are naturally friendly to human. If it is a Rottweiler or an Alsation roaming in the street, well, I think you better not mess with them. They are definitely pet guard dogs. It is unlikely they are strays. Don't ever try to pet them.

I am referring to friendly Mongrels. Stray mongrels are naturally friendly to human unless they have been abused in the past. You call them and they will wag their tails, they will come to you and lick your shoes, your trousers, your leg, and sniff your butt. They pose no harm to anyone. Instead, human beings are the real menace to stray dogs.

My neighbour, Ah Beng, is a dog owner. Just a few days ago, this puppy (below) roamed into his house. To punish the puppy for coming to his house, he decided to walloped the puppy repeatedly with a stick. And yes, you can hear a very loud cry from the puppy.

And of course, he likes to whack his own pet dog as well. From time to time, you will hear his dog whine and cry from the beating. So, it beats me why they decided to keep a dog in the first place.

It's been a long time

It's been a longggg time....

Finally, I found time to write something.

I have collected, roughly, about 160 completed questionnaires. But, out of that, only 132 questionnaires are usable. It's because the rest are not filled in correctly. What do you mean by that? Example, some people just filled in the questionnaire by ticking...Neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral......

Everytime I see such a response, I feel like waving my magic wand sending them to a research methodology class immediately. Some people still don't see the importance of filling in questionnaires, thinking that research is something useless.

It would be good if all undergraduate students have to conduct a research before they can graduate. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Research projects are not compulsory in most undergraduate studies.

Even in some postgraduate studies, especially coursework Master's degree from Australia, research is not part of the syllabus. So, I ponder what is the point of getting that postgraduate degree if one does not have to do a research. It's just like doing another one-year diploma programme, except that it is called a Master's degree.

Anyway, it's so obvious that such blatant responses cannot be used. So, the questionnaires had to be discarded. If I were to include it in, it would wreaked havoc in my analysis.

No, I'm not to going to do a simple analysis in the Excel worksheet or producing simple graphs and charts. Instead, I'm going to analyse statistically using the SPSS 17.0 Software (Statistical Package for Social Science). And this software is smart enough to detect anomalies.