> I think that our past experience with "surveys" done in the context of > GNOME have shown that this sort of survey isn't useful. How would you check the user's opinions then? To get some objective, measurable results, that would not depend on interpretation by biased (to non-geeks) decision makers?
> Taken to the extreme, as an example you'll be familiar with: if you Obviously, your survey results are only as good as your survey environment and audience. Does that mean that any effort in futile? > So any survey is likely to be biased, which makes surveys not so useful. Sorry, I do not quite understand that remark. Are you saying there is no way to find the audience that would be unbiased? Are you just implying that the current userbase of GNOME is so geekish that fair survey among existing users would only represent the POV of geeks? _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
