So will we be reviewing the data as anonymous entries or anonymous aggregates? If I can see that Apache has only one over-65 person, that doesn't tell me anything other than the single over-65 person filled out the survey. However, if I can see each entry with an anonymous id instead of their name, then yes, that is fairly easy to reverse back to names.
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 22:26, Patricia Shanahan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/5/2019 6:17 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > On 12/5/2019 3:58 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > > ... > >> Not sure if this is the right venue. Feel free to redirect me. > >> > >> Working my way through the survey, I'm finding that - for me at least - > >> it would be trivial to de-anonymise my response. It isn't going to > >> affect my answers but I wonder if it will affect the responses of others. > >> > >> I'm not sure what could be done about this. We need the demographic data > >> but that combined with out relatively small population and relatively > >> detailed data available about each committer's activities makes > >> de-anonymisation easier. > >> > >> I think this is something to file under "things to take into > >> consideration for the next survey" but I wanted to raise it while it was > >> fresh in my mind. > > > > I have the same concern. One thing that can be done even now is to > > establish a minimum size of group for which statistics will be broken > > out for publication. > > In a board@ thread, which I am staying away from, Dave Fisher remarked: > > > Elsewhere someone suggested that answers may be enough to impute who > > filled in that set of answers. I would say those are well known board > > members. The survey is out. Let’s analyze results in a couple > > months. > Although inferring identity from one or two answers is probably limited > to a few board members, combinations can be very powerful. My survey > answers show that I am over-65, female, PhD, PMC and ASF member, UK > origin, US resident, and sometimes attend face-to-face meetings but not > often. That is probably not a very large demographic. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- Matt Sicker <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
