There's also the problem that the survey starts by asking for the uname/pwd for your "main" BOINC project - surely not a concept that the project-agnostic BOINC infrastructure would want to endorse. My largest cobblestone-count is at SETI, so I started a test response using SETI this morning: but the BOINC server crashed before I could get any further, so I quit.
I came back to the survey this evening, but I couldn't choose SETI, because by then maintenance had started, and the survey software couldn't log in. I chose CPDN as my 'alternate-main' project, and - - disproved the rubric on page 1: "we will use this information ONLY to get data about your BOINC participation, such as amount of BOINC credit you have earned." From that point forward (well page 2 anyway - I haven't gone forward from that), the questionaire is exclusively about main project participation - like this gem: "The following section includes statements about yourself and Climateprediction.net. If you also contribute to other projects, please answer in reference to Climateprediction.net." I once wrote a suite of community-profiling software for the Policy Research Institute of Leeds Metropolitan University, marketed under the title "Compass". During the course of that work, I learned quite a bit about questionnaire design, and this one wouldn't have been approved by my contract managers there. "How many computers do you run Climateprediction.net on?", followed by "How many hours a day, approximately, is Climateprediction.net running on your computer?", is a contradiction: is my computer singular or plural? (I haven't tried answering '96' - that might be interesting, and true). Likewise, the survey designer seems ambivalent in the next two questions: "Your major uses of the computer on which you run Climateprediction.net:" (singular), vs. "What type of computer(s) do you run Climateprediction.net on?" (allowing plural). And so on - I think that's enough to be getting on with. > On the CPDN forums Milo has asked members to complete the Boinc Survey: > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/survey/. > > A very experienced CPDN moderator has said privately that he thinks the > requirement for email address and project password is poorly thought out. > When he saw the requirement he declined to complete the survey and so did > I. > If I provided that information an unknown person could potentially log on > as > me and read my Boinc-CPDN inbox full of private messages. > > Could you please look at the comments on the CPDN forum: > http://climateprediction.net/board/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=9249&p=87596#p87596. > > Isn't there a less intrusive way to check on the Boinc participation of > respondents? > > > Mo > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
