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Engineering jobs ann particularly desktop engineering jobs are going overseas. You aren't competing with the Perth pool of graduates , you are competing with the Perth pool+ Malaysia pool + Vietnam pool + Philippines pool.
It's shit, while the Universities here are keeping you busy with gender pay gap, social issues they run campuses overseas focusing on Science, Engineering ECT
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Thank you about this information, well I just really wanted to work to engineering field so that I can enhance my skills and knowledge
This is what I’m thinking now, continue my study at curtin and take bachelor degree Mechanical engineering, Well it’s expensive but surely good investment for my self and for my future job.
Will definitely do this, thank you for sharing your experience.
I was out there from 2011-2014, funnily enough, I’m heading back out there in a few weeks in a 2/1
Thank you for sharing your experience, I should start doing this whatever opportunity comes will take it.
yes, i’m thinking to do entry level job that will help me to gain a experience first.
If you can already qualify for the degree in mechanical engineering I'd transfer ASAP
If you haven't I guess there'd be a pathway for acknowledgement of prior learning if you're lucky.
I’ve ask tafe about this already, they says that it’s better to finish my advance diploma, This will help me to skip 1 year at uni
I would speak to a uni about being able to skip 1 year rather than going off what your TAFE says. Your TAFE wants to keep you there so they get paid! Uni's will have someone you can talk to if you look at their websites.
First year uni is a lot about fundamental math and physics concepts which I dont believe you get from the TAFE course.
Bingo this would be my response, it's in TAFE's best interest to keep you there
First year engineering sorts the boys out from the men
Hi again!
I’m a fourth-year undergraduate psychology student at Curtin University, currently in the process of completing my honours research project as a partial fulfilment for the Bachelor of Psychology Degree.
I am conducting a research study under the supervision of Dr Ans Vercammen (Chief Investigator) and Dr Hannah Uren (Co-investigator). The research aims to explore people's perceptions of hypothetical policies aimed at reducing the overconsumption of red and processed meat products. This study has been granted ethical approval by the Human Research Ethics Office at Curtin University (HRE2024-0328).
Note: I am a student researcher and have no affiliation with any government entities to implement the policies used in this study. All the policies presented are hypothetical and the official government departments have been used as an example for the purposes of this research!
To be eligible to participate in this study, you will be required to reside in Australia, be over the age of 18 years and be proficient in English.
Given the rise of sustainable diets and lifestyles, I am requesting your participation in a 20-minute survey, evaluating your perceptions of 12 different policies, where you will be required to rate each question on a scale. The findings of this study will contribute to our knowledge of public policy implementation and what the Australian population deems the most effective in reducing red and processed meat consumption.
Individuals who choose to participate can enter a prize draw to win a $50 eftpos voucher as a thank you for taking the time to participate. All participants are eligible to enter the prize draw. For more information on how to enter the prize draw, please carefully read the information provided at the start of this survey.
Thank you for your consideration. I greatly appreciate all those who have the time to participate in this study.
Please use the following link: [https://curtin.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV\_bDElJcmVpozXg4m](https://curtin.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bDElJcmVpozXg4m)
Thank you!
Tara Ghasemi
Bachelor of Psychology (honours) student at Curtin University, Western Australia
Contact information provided in survey!!!
https://preview.redd.it/…8e8c06ea003b0d47
Not this crap again! Your last one you dirty deleted.
For anyone thinking of doing it, it’s just a bunch of cracked ideals of putting tax on red meat etc to stop people eating so much of it.
Itt: people don't understand the the whole point of this study is to gather YOUR opinions on HYPOTHETICAL policies.
>Imagine that the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) is considering introducing policies to reduce the consumption of red and processed meats. The aim of these policies is to protect the environment by reducing the emission of greenhouse gasses, improving biodiversity and reducing water pollution.
This is some dystopian level government policy, the fact that it's even being researched is disturbing...
People laugh at the cookers, but is this not the sort of crap they warned us about re climate change being used as a means to significantly alter how we live?
>The research aims to explore people's perceptions of hypothetical policies aimed at reducing the overconsumption of red and processed meat products.
I don't accept the premise that there's an overconsumption of red meat. I'm no vegan, but you're operating from a position that we all agree there's an overconsumption in the first place in order to get our opinions on hypothetical policies aimed at reducing this supposed overconsumption.
I participated! Good luck, I don’t know about you but i got given a really boring topic i hated. But I’m glad it wasn’t any one of the enviro ones at least!
I did this degree a few years ago. Good luck with your dissertation!
I'll give up red meat when politicians give up their private jets
r/SampleSize
Would be hilarious if it wasn’t just sad, reading comments of people thinking the government taxing something to promote certain behaviour within the population and economy is a radical idea. As if that isnt one of the primary ways the government influences actions already around nearly every topic….
Y'know how we'll get more legume farmers? Give money to cow farmers duh.
If you want to promote legume farming then give subsidies to legume farming and take subsidies AWAY from meat farming.
Giving money for transitioning will just lead to cow farmers growing the bare minimum shitty legume product to qualify for the subsidies and then feed that back to their cows to save on food costs.
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Sir
It's a survey...
My main issue (having filled it in) is that the person who set it up doesn't seem to understand how the various government departments, or sales tax, works.
It’s been clearly established that the animal agriculture industry contributes a significant amount of carbon emissions leading to climate change:
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2022/02/new-model-explores-link-animal-agriculture-climate-change
Check out Jonathan Safran Foers book ‘we are the weather’ it makes the argument that reducing meat intake to one meal a day is the single biggest change that any person can make to reversing the current climate change trajectory.
How did the government reduce smoking?
Tax the fuck out of cigarettes.
You’re not wrong. All it takes is one cracked out idea like this and next minute…
Just throw in lots of woke buzzwords, and remember the supervisor is more interested in activist politics than actual psychology. Focus on climate change rather than personal health or self-determination.
You know they filter those out right? You've just wasted your own time
They're psychology students doing an undergraduate dissertation. Students largely don't even get to pick their topic. This likely isnt even going to be published.
Not a compelling argument unfortunately.
If a diet of red meat = inevitable climate change, then so be it. I choose to retain the diet and will take my chances with climate change. It's the same with every lifestyle aspect, not giving up flying etc.
The fact that you can even sit there and propose infringing on people's lifestyle to that degree makes you their enemy. You aren't just someone to disagree with, you are a physical threat to our standard of living. Many of you wonder why people are so accepting of government laws to jail activists, this is why...
There's a vast chasm between cigarettes and the health impacts, compared to red meat and using climate change as the justification to tax it...
At the peak only a quarter of Australians smoked cigarettes, red meat on the other hand is a dietary staple for most Australian households. They are not at all comparable.
And then what? Seriously, what?
Don’t let nameless fear of supposed slippery slopes drive your view points. Be specific, and if you can’t, ask yourself, does it really make sense to be worried about it, if you don’t even know what it, is?
"Everything I don't like is woke"
You sound fun
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lol, I know it's a student research project.
> You aren't just someone to disagree with, you are a physical threat to our standard of living.
If you don't like physical threats to our standard of living, you're really gonna hate climate change
There's a link to the health impacts of red meat consumption.
I guess what I'm suggesting is given enough political will and scientific backing, taxing red meat is really not out of the question.
Everything? Woke is a pejorative reserved for far-left ideology. There is a whole lot of craziness in right-wing nutjobs that is not covered. Fascists, cookers, authoritarians, populists, nationalists ... Perhaps you can suggest a more inclusive word? What is the Australian equivalent of a MAGA?
Was your dissertation on a more serious topic, or equally "fun"?
Dissertation is a requirement for graduation, so I'd say it's worth their time, yeah
My point is why does it matter? This isn't 'real' research. If this was a real study they'd be collaborating with whatever government department set it up. It'd be a whole different bag. And getting every detail about a non-existent policy for an undergraduate dissertation is a waste of time
>There's a link to the health impacts of red meat consumption.
They aren't arguing the health impacts of red meat, they are arguing the 'climate impact' and emissions...
> Woke is a pejorative reserved for far-left ideology
My exact point. Woke itself is just a buzzword for when people can't actually articulate the issue they have with an idea and instead just want something they can use to disregard it
It's an undergraduate dissertation bro. Are you expecting groundbreaking research?
>Dissertation is a requirement for graduation, so I'd say it's worth their time, yeah
Of all the possible topics to complete a dissertation on for a pysch degree, this is an absolute joke. The topic is utter rubbish.
I'm actually concerned for Curtin, what unstable person do they have employed who is thinking these topics up? It's not a good look for Curtin and I say that as an alumni...
In the case of using GST/Sales Tax as a mechanism to curb consumption it could effect how somebody responds to the survey questions. Being more vague and saying 'a price on red meat consumption' would be more neutral wording.
When you consider the amount of natural resources in terms of land, water and feed it takes to produce red meat plus emissions from both the animals and the transport to the abattoir/port and then either to store or wherever overseas they're going the environmental impact is pretty big not gonna lie
Who's "they"?
If you're referring to the survey, the survey is just a survey to gauge public perception of this. You'll see the relevance of my point if you've done the survey.
The health impacts of red meat are available on many reliable scientifically based sources online.
disparage?
It just bothers me when academics use their salary for political activism, unrelated to the field. Climate change is important, but she isn't a scientist.
The students don't get to pick their topic my guy. Also it's just a questionnaire about a non-existent policy, try not to take it too seriously
That's a fair point. Small details like that do matter in science. Being fair though, this dissertation is the first one many of these students have done. Many don't even have any intention of continuing in academia or research. And fussing over minute details like that isn't worth the time or energy when you're a 4th year student managing 3 other classes. This is just a learning exercise at the end of the day.
Probably true, however that isn't going to have the same policy selling capacity as the health issues that were associated with smoking. People fear death from cancer, they aren't so fearful of death from climate change.
It's really simple - People won't give an inch of their living standard for climate change policy. That was demonstrated with the political fallout from the carbon tax, yet some are still determined to flog what is a well and truly dead horse!
The STUDENT who posted this isn't using their salary for anything. The whole point of the study is to find out how people feel about these policies. How else would you do that other than ask people?
>The students don't get to pick their topic my guy
When I did my undergrad honours at Curtin, we most certainly had the option to select our own topics! You could bid for the projects the uni offers, or you could byo.

Engineering jobs ann particularly desktop engineering jobs are going overseas. You aren't competing with the Perth pool of graduates , you are competing with the Perth pool+ Malaysia pool + Vietnam pool + Philippines pool.

It's shit, while the Universities here are keeping you busy with gender pay gap, social issues they run campuses overseas focusing on Science, Engineering ECT

this

Thank you about this information, well I just really wanted to work to engineering field so that I can enhance my skills and knowledge

This is what I’m thinking now, continue my study at curtin and take bachelor degree Mechanical engineering, Well it’s expensive but surely good investment for my self and for my future job.

Will definitely do this, thank you for sharing your experience.

I was out there from 2011-2014, funnily enough, I’m heading back out there in a few weeks in a 2/1

Thank you for sharing your experience, I should start doing this whatever opportunity comes will take it.

yes, i’m thinking to do entry level job that will help me to gain a experience first.

If you can already qualify for the degree in mechanical engineering I'd transfer ASAP

If you haven't I guess there'd be a pathway for acknowledgement of prior learning if you're lucky.

I’ve ask tafe about this already, they says that it’s better to finish my advance diploma, This will help me to skip 1 year at uni

I would speak to a uni about being able to skip 1 year rather than going off what your TAFE says. Your TAFE wants to keep you there so they get paid! Uni's will have someone you can talk to if you look at their websites.

First year uni is a lot about fundamental math and physics concepts which I dont believe you get from the TAFE course.

Bingo this would be my response, it's in TAFE's best interest to keep you there

First year engineering sorts the boys out from the men

Hi again!

I’m a fourth-year undergraduate psychology student at Curtin University, currently in the process of completing my honours research project as a partial fulfilment for the Bachelor of Psychology Degree.

I am conducting a research study under the supervision of Dr Ans Vercammen (Chief Investigator) and Dr Hannah Uren (Co-investigator). The research aims to explore people's perceptions of hypothetical policies aimed at reducing the overconsumption of red and processed meat products. **This study has been granted ethical approval by the Human Research Ethics Office at Curtin University (HRE2024-0328).**

**Note: I am a student researcher and have no affiliation with any government entities to implement the policies used in this study. All the policies presented are hypothetical and the official government departments have been used as an example for the purposes of this research!**

**To be eligible to participate in this study, you will be required to reside in Australia, be over the age of 18 years and be proficient in English.**

Given the rise of sustainable diets and lifestyles, I am requesting your participation in a 20-minute survey, evaluating your perceptions of 12 different policies, where you will be required to rate each question on a scale. The findings of this study will contribute to our knowledge of public policy implementation and what the Australian population deems the most effective in reducing red and processed meat consumption.

Individuals who choose to participate can enter **a prize draw to win a $50 eftpos voucher** as a thank you for taking the time to participate. All participants are eligible to enter the prize draw. For more information on how to enter the prize draw, please carefully read the information provided at the start of this survey.

Thank you for your consideration. I greatly appreciate all those who have the time to participate in this study.

**Please use the following link:** [https://curtin.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV\_bDElJcmVpozXg4m](https://curtin.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bDElJcmVpozXg4m)

Thank you!

Tara Ghasemi

Bachelor of Psychology (honours) student at Curtin University, Western Australia

Contact information provided in survey!!!

https://preview.redd.it/…8e8c06ea003b0d47

Not this crap again! Your last one you dirty deleted.

For anyone thinking of doing it, it’s just a bunch of cracked ideals of putting tax on red meat etc to stop people eating so much of it.

Itt: people don't understand the the whole point of this study is to gather YOUR opinions on HYPOTHETICAL policies.

>Imagine that the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) is considering introducing policies to reduce the consumption of red and processed meats. The aim of these policies is to protect the environment by reducing the emission of greenhouse gasses, improving biodiversity and reducing water pollution.

This is some dystopian level government policy, the fact that it's even being researched is disturbing...

People laugh at the cookers, but is this not the sort of crap they warned us about re climate change being used as a means to significantly alter how we live?

>The research aims to explore people's perceptions of hypothetical policies aimed at reducing the overconsumption of red and processed meat products.

I don't accept the premise that there's an overconsumption of red meat. I'm no vegan, but you're operating from a position that we all agree there's an overconsumption in the first place in order to get our opinions on hypothetical policies aimed at reducing this supposed overconsumption.

I participated! Good luck, I don’t know about you but i got given a really boring topic i hated. But I’m glad it wasn’t any one of the enviro ones at least!

I did this degree a few years ago. Good luck with your dissertation!

I'll give up red meat when politicians give up their private jets

r/SampleSize

Would be hilarious if it wasn’t just sad, reading comments of people thinking the government taxing something to promote certain behaviour within the population and economy is a radical idea. As if that isnt one of the primary ways the government influences actions already around nearly every topic….

Y'know how we'll get more legume farmers? Give money to cow farmers duh.

If you want to promote legume farming then give subsidies to legume farming and take subsidies AWAY from meat farming.

Giving money for transitioning will just lead to cow farmers growing the bare minimum shitty legume product to qualify for the subsidies and then feed that back to their cows to save on food costs.

[deleted]

Sir

It's a survey...

My main issue (having filled it in) is that the person who set it up doesn't seem to understand how the various government departments, or sales tax, works.

It’s been clearly established that the animal agriculture industry contributes a significant amount of carbon emissions leading to climate change:

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2022/02/new-model-explores-link-animal-agriculture-climate-change

Check out Jonathan Safran Foers book ‘we are the weather’ it makes the argument that reducing meat intake to one meal a day is the single biggest change that any person can make to reversing the current climate change trajectory.

How did the government reduce smoking?

Tax the fuck out of cigarettes.

You’re not wrong. All it takes is one cracked out idea like this and next minute…

Just throw in lots of woke buzzwords, and remember the supervisor is more interested in activist politics than actual psychology. Focus on climate change rather than personal health or self-determination.

You know they filter those out right? You've just wasted your own time

They're psychology students doing an undergraduate dissertation. Students largely don't even get to pick their topic. This likely isnt even going to be published.

Not a compelling argument unfortunately.

If a diet of red meat = inevitable climate change, then so be it. I choose to retain the diet and will take my chances with climate change. It's the same with every lifestyle aspect, not giving up flying etc.

The fact that you can even sit there and propose infringing on people's lifestyle to that degree makes you their enemy. You aren't just someone to disagree with, you are a physical threat to our standard of living. Many of you wonder why people are so accepting of government laws to jail activists, this is why...

There's a vast chasm between cigarettes and the health impacts, compared to red meat and using climate change as the justification to tax it...

At the peak only a quarter of Australians smoked cigarettes, red meat on the other hand is a dietary staple for most Australian households. They are not at all comparable.

And then what? Seriously, what?

Don’t let nameless fear of supposed slippery slopes drive your view points. Be specific, and if you can’t, ask yourself, does it really make sense to be worried about it, if you don’t even know what it, is?

"Everything I don't like is woke"

You sound fun

[deleted]

lol, I know it's a student research project.

> You aren't just someone to disagree with, you are a physical threat to our standard of living.

If you don't like physical threats to our standard of living, you're really gonna hate climate change

There's a link to the health impacts of red meat consumption.

I guess what I'm suggesting is given enough political will and scientific backing, taxing red meat is really not out of the question.

Everything? Woke is a pejorative reserved for far-left ideology. There is a whole lot of craziness in right-wing nutjobs that is not covered. Fascists, cookers, authoritarians, populists, nationalists ... Perhaps you can suggest a more inclusive word? What is the Australian equivalent of a MAGA?

Was your dissertation on a more serious topic, or equally "fun"?

Dissertation is a requirement for graduation, so I'd say it's worth their time, yeah

My point is why does it matter? This isn't 'real' research. If this was a real study they'd be collaborating with whatever government department set it up. It'd be a whole different bag. And getting every detail about a non-existent policy for an undergraduate dissertation is a waste of time

>There's a link to the health impacts of red meat consumption.

They aren't arguing the health impacts of red meat, they are arguing the 'climate impact' and emissions...

> Woke is a pejorative reserved for far-left ideology

My exact point. Woke itself is just a buzzword for when people can't actually articulate the issue they have with an idea and instead just want something they can use to disregard it

It's an undergraduate dissertation bro. Are you expecting groundbreaking research?

>Dissertation is a requirement for graduation, so I'd say it's worth their time, yeah

Of all the possible topics to complete a dissertation on for a pysch degree, this is an absolute joke. The topic is utter rubbish.

I'm actually concerned for Curtin, what unstable person do they have employed who is thinking these topics up? It's not a good look for Curtin and I say that as an alumni...

In the case of using GST/Sales Tax as a mechanism to curb consumption it could effect how somebody responds to the survey questions. Being more vague and saying 'a price on red meat consumption' would be more neutral wording.

When you consider the amount of natural resources in terms of land, water and feed it takes to produce red meat plus emissions from both the animals and the transport to the abattoir/port and then either to store or wherever overseas they're going the environmental impact is pretty big not gonna lie

Who's "they"?

If you're referring to the survey, the survey is just a survey to gauge public perception of this. You'll see the relevance of my point if you've done the survey.

The health impacts of red meat are available on many reliable scientifically based sources online.

disparage?

It just bothers me when academics use their salary for political activism, unrelated to the field. Climate change is important, but she isn't a scientist.

The students don't get to pick their topic my guy. Also it's just a questionnaire about a non-existent policy, try not to take it too seriously

That's a fair point. Small details like that do matter in science. Being fair though, this dissertation is the first one many of these students have done. Many don't even have any intention of continuing in academia or research. And fussing over minute details like that isn't worth the time or energy when you're a 4th year student managing 3 other classes. This is just a learning exercise at the end of the day.

Probably true, however that isn't going to have the same policy selling capacity as the health issues that were associated with smoking. People fear death from cancer, they aren't so fearful of death from climate change.

It's really simple - People won't give an inch of their living standard for climate change policy. That was demonstrated with the political fallout from the carbon tax, yet some are still determined to flog what is a well and truly dead horse!

The STUDENT who posted this isn't using their salary for anything. The whole point of the study is to find out how people feel about these policies. How else would you do that other than ask people?

>The students don't get to pick their topic my guy

When I did my undergrad honours at Curtin, we most certainly had the option to select our own topics! You could bid for the projects the uni offers, or you could byo.