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First of all I'd like to say that I really appreciate your interest (those 2 answers are far more helpful than 2 responses on the questionare) and that, since I'm not from an english-speaking country, I'll do my best to answer with the maximum correction.

How can you "prove" that use is not related to "personal failure", whatever that is?

It would be based mainly in the level of studies of the consumers and if they consume more... "superficial" drugs like cocaine or marijuana regularly. Ok, I know that personal failure is neither related to your academic success nor what you do to your body. The truth is that what I pretended to "demonstrate", "show", "check" or whatever is that entheogens consumers do not fit with the model that people have established for "junkies" (frequently, neither do they fit with the model established).

What level project is this? Unless it's for a degree thesis, I recommend you narrow your focus. Too many nebulous goals, poor prospects of success, poorly conceived IMO

I don't really know what IMO means :roll:, however I confess it's not the serious it should be since it's a high school project. That's no excuse, I know, but I don't have a flexible period of delivery (neither an excuse I supose). I agree my goals are too general but I found more interesting to make it in a more divulging (I don't know if that's the word.. I mean like open to the public it will be shown to) and general way so it could catch my companions and teachers' atention. So yes, it is for sure not as precise as a cientific/degree level study.

Have YOU ever "tried" entheogens, Blind?

I've never even smoked or consumed marijuana. However I see entheogens as a tool to solve personal problems and achieve personal knowledge; so I'm looking forward to try ayahuasca this christmas, not to solve any present problem but to familiarize with it for the case I need it

I tend to agree with Dendro. If this is a high-school project (or equivalent) there are different (and looser) criteria for experiment and questionnaire design. You don't say what kind of correlation analysis you're planning on doing, but the wording and design can greatly affect the ease at which the analysis can be done.

I see several errors now in the questionare's format of which I am sorry; but I have to hand in the project the 3rd of December and I alrready have 170 answers so if I'd change now the format it would completely lose the veracity

announcing this to potential respondents beforehand is quite a mistake

I think you're right  :lol: :oops:

In conclusion, there are great number of errors in the questionare. However this is my first "serious" study and I don't expect the results to be as precise as they should be. Thank you Amomynous for the link

http://www.maps.org/ayahuasca/MMPI-2_St ... inkers.doc

Which I'll study conciously and will for sure help me in the moment of showing the results.
Seriously, thank you for the answers

Hi, I'm working on a project regarding entheogens (although there was some controversy amongst the teachers I decided to keep on going with it ^_^ ) Some things I want to acomplish are:
-Study the consumers' profile
-Proof that their consumption is not related to personal failure
-Demonstrate that all kinds of people consume it (over 40 years old, people with doctorates...)
-Measure the strenght of their effects
-Analize the effects induced  by the consumption of each substance
-Compare the advantages and dissadvantages of each one...

To the point, I've uploaded a questionare://http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHB3LWx5WGZiNTdHbklxaEVBWXJybkE6MA with which I pretend to study some of the above mentioned points. At first I only ment to collect 50 responses but I received more than what I expected so I've translated it to english and I'm aiming for the 200-300 responses ^_^

The entheogens that appear in the questionare are:
-Ayahuasca
-LSD
-Psilocybe Mushrooms
-Salvia Divinorum
-Peyote
-DOM
-DOB
-2-CB

So if you've tried any of them I would really appreciate your answer, thanks for reading and sorry if there are any gramatical mistakes.  :lol:

Once the study is finished I could upload here the results and the conclusions with graphics, stadistics, and all that