On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Jason D. Clinton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 15:38, Felipe Contreras > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Unfortunately, it seems this is >> not going to be blessed by GNOME, and questionpro.com only allows 10 >> questions in the free version. I haven't found a better free online >> survey, and unless somebody offers hosting for this survey, it would >> have to be limited. > > Google Docs Spreadsheets has a survey system built in to it called > Forms. It allows anonymous respondents.
Actually, it will be hosted on Phoronix. >> One problem raised was the issue of self-selection bias, of course, >> without any suggestions to get rid of it. > > That's false. I gave you two strategies: > >> You can mitigate this problem by >> offering a survey that appears to have nothing to do with the subject >> matter that you're really looking for an answer on so that you get a >> truly random sampling of Linux users. You also must be careful not to >> recruit people to take the survey from communities which will contain >> angry people. For example, going to forums to find people to take a >> survey automatically selectively biases from people who were likely >> there to solve some kind of problem and are so already in a particular >> state of mind.[1] Those "strategies" are unactionable. In this interconnected world one cannot choose who doesn't get a piece of information. > And you still haven't addressed the biased question phrasing in > questions 2 and 3. Yes I have, according to the suggestions proposed. I you have a suggestion, go ahead. -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
