Hi Michael,
I've had a look at the questionnaire, and have spotted a few issues
with it. I'd be happy to provide you with some more substantive
feedback. (I have a background in social research.)
There are a couple of bigger issues with self-selection survey that we
need to consider though. The main one is sample bias - since people
will be volunteering to fill in the survey, we will have no idea how
representative it is of GNOME users. Worse still, it could possibly
suffer from efforts to recruit people based on their preexisting
opinions ("fill in the survey to tell the GNOME project how much we
hate GNOME 3" / "fill in the survey to tell the GNOME developers how
much you love GNOME 3").
My concern about this is that any results that are generated will be
highly suggestive. If you publish something saying that 99% of
respondents love/hate GNOME 3, it will appear that 99% of all users
love/hate GNOME 3, and that is how the result will be interpreted.
Yet, we will have no idea how that result actually relates to the
GNOME 3 user population as a whole. That wouldn't be very good
publicity, and it wouldn't help us get a better idea about the
attitudes and opinions of everyone who uses GNOME.
This problem is compounded by the fact that many people don't even
know that they are running GNOME; a lot of people only identify their
distribution as the thing that they use.
Allan
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Michael Heyns
<mike.bean.he...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At first I wasn't sure if I should span all of 3.x because many of the
> issues of previous releases have been pinpointed by now.
>
> But in hindsight and looking at which versions are default for most distros,
> it makes much more sense.
>
> I will make the appropriate changes.
> Thank you, everybody.
>
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> On 24/05/2013 6:05 AM, "Brett Legree" <brett.leg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think that it looks great, and I agree with Fabiana and Karen that it
>> would be good to expand it beyond just GNOME 3.8 (to perhaps see just what
>> versions people are using).
>>
>> Brett
>>
>> On May 23, 2013 1:49 PM, "Fabiana Simões" <fabianapsim...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> That looks great! This kind of information is much needed, thank you.
>>>
>>>> Me too! I do have one question - did you intentionally limit the survey
>>>> to
>>>> 3.8? Or did you want to make the survey about 3.x? I think it's unlikely
>>>> right now that anyone running 3.8 has it because someone else installed
>>>> it
>>>> for them or because it's the default on their distro. It'll take some
>>>> time
>>>> for that :)
>>>
>>>
>>> One idea is to focus the survey on the 3.x family, instead of in a single
>>> release. With this, we would also be able to explore the perceived
>>> improvement of GNOME 3 for those users that have been using it since 3.0 (or
>>> later). For example, we could ask 1) what release they are currently using
>>> and how do they rate it; and 2) how do they rate the improvement between
>>> this release and the first one they used (would be interesting to know which
>>> release was that).
>>>
>>> - Fabiana
>>>
>>>
>>> On 23 May 2013 12:29, Karen Sandler <ka...@gnome.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 10:13 am, Emily Gonyer wrote:
>>>> > Fantastic Michael! Thanks - I can't wait to see the results!
>>>>
>>>> Me too! I do have one question - did you intentionally limit the survey
>>>> to
>>>> 3.8? Or did you want to make the survey about 3.x? I think it's unlikely
>>>> right now that anyone running 3.8 has it because someone else installed
>>>> it
>>>> for them or because it's the default on their distro. It'll take some
>>>> time
>>>> for that :)
>>>>
>>>> karen
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Michael Heyns
>>>> > <mike.bean.he...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Dear Gnome Team,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I trust this is an appropriate method of communication. I have been a
>>>> >> Gnome user since 2004 and I haven't contributed much besides the odd
>>>> >> bug
>>>> >> report but I am very enthusiastic about the platform and have really
>>>> >> enjoyed Gnome 3.x so far.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> In an effort to understand more about my fellow users, I designed a
>>>> >> questionnaire with no hidden agenda besides pure curiosity and the
>>>> >> hope
>>>> >> that information could be of some use to somebody.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I didn't want to start promoting it all over the internet before
>>>> >> consulting with you as I don't want to step on any toes. Please have
>>>> >> a
>>>> >> look
>>>> >> at it and tell me what you think. Maybe I can improve on it.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Unofficial Gnome 3.8 User Survey - 2013: http://goo.gl/pC48p
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I work with information systems and have a fair understanding of
>>>> >> statistics so I plan on compiling summaries and reports once the
>>>> >> feedback
>>>> >> is strong enough.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I look forward to hearing from you and as always I am very grateful
>>>> >> for
>>>> >> everything you do for me and my computers :) (too cheesy?)
>>>> >>
>>>> >> All the best,
>>>> >>
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