Thank you for your input! > Question 4.5 was worded wrong. > In English, the wording of your question makes it difficult to choose an > answer that would mean "Hell yes I mind! - Don't do it!". One could > interpret "not at all" as "Nope, I wouldn't mind". One could also say > "to a large degree" means "I agree that I would not mind". See the > problem? In both cases it appears that I don't mind, even if I do.
The wording in the scale is default, but does indeed become a problem with this question. I am glad you made me aware of it so fast. > Try this instead: "I would accept if openSUSE was designed in red Novell > colors". With that, the answers become clearer in meaning. This is a good suggestion, but would turn the scale the other way around - making the existing replies invalid. I have rephrased the question to this instead: "It would be fine with me if openSUSE was designed in red Novell colors" "not at all - to a little degree - to some degree - to a large degree " I hope that makes it better. Jan Fredrik > Try this instead: "I would accept if openSUSE was designed in red Novell > colors". With that, the answers become clearer in meaning. > > --Jonathon M. Robison > > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 16:07 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello, >> >> My name is Jan Fredrik Stoveland, and I am a masters student at the >> University of Oslo writing a thesis on firm-sponsored open source >> communities. openSUSE is the main case for the study. I have been >> granted >> permission to send you this email by Andreas Jaeger and Martin Lasarch, >> and I hope you do not mind receiving it. I would like to ask all of the >> members of the this mailinglist to participate in a brief, anonymous >> electronic survey targeted at active contributors in the openSUSE >> community. The research is funded by the University, and is independent >> of >> any commercial interests. The link to the survey is here: >> https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer.html?fid=38823â©=en >> >> I have selected these mailinglists as the main community indicator: >> project, factory, buildservice, wiki and translation. It is of great >> importance to get valid answers from as many of you as possible. The >> questions in the survey concern your current engagement in the openSUSE >> community, your reasons for participating in the community and your >> affiliation with Novell. I expect the survey will take you 10 minutes to >> complete, unless you find any questions difficult to answer. >> >> What do you get in return for doing this? The results from the survey >> will >> be posted to the list within a month, and the thesis with other >> interesting findings about your community will be published around May >> next year. Hopefully this will be of interest to you. But first of all I >> hope you will contribute for the sake of research itself. Not too much >> academic research has been done on communities that are facilitated by >> partially-proprietary companies like Novell. >> >> Furthermore, I would like to do an in depth interview on the phone with >> a >> few of you to get more detailed answers. I will randomly select about 6 >> people to talk to. In addition I would appreciate to talk to any people >> that have additional opinions. So if you have something more to say >> after >> completing the survey, please send me an email! >> >> Thank you very much for your help! >> >> Jan Fredrik Stoveland >> Student of Sociology and Informatics >> University of Oslo, Norway >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
