Results of first Campus Misery survey! (on research productivity)

To see the results of the first survey, click here: Campus Misery Research Survey Results

I sprang for a paid account for one month so that I could share and crosstabulate the results. The crosstabulated results are interesting; my general comments are below, but I'll post the results as pdfs if anyone is interested. Also,  if anyone wants can think of other surveys to run, now is the time to ask - my $20 has bought one month's worth of extended privileges.

I'm not sure how the writers feel about everyone being able to read the (generally innocuous and never identifying) collated written comments, so I have blocked those just in case.  If the general feeling is that it's okay to post those I'll unblock them.  To see my own comments click on "read more", below:
 

 To boil it down, it will come as no surprise that the most productive researchers are

• the ones who have grad students to do a lot of the work, and the ones who are otherwise working collaboratively (that is, sciences and engineering, mostly)
• the ones who are teaching 4 classes per year (not five, or six, or, dear God, EIGHTEEN.)

 A few other comments:

To the 30% of us who are teaching more than 6 classes a year - in some cases, more than 6 classes a semester; in one case, NINE classes a semester - dear God.  I had no idea.  My heart goes out.  That is brutal, and insane.

The most frequent publication motivator seems to be fear, closely seconded by - actually, still fear.  But the collaborators are motivated by not wanting to let the others down, and seem to enjoy their work more, too.  Conclusion: get a collaborator.  Also, check out the blog "Stupid Motivational Tricks", which one person mentioned in the comments, and which is full of good stuff. 

To the person who called me a fucking doofus: I'd say "same to you, bub," but you're teaching 18 classes so I think you've earned the right to be a little cranky.