Oops, my mistake. Your suggestion didn't turn it around at all. Your comment has anyway been executed ;-)
Jan Fredrik > 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]
