2014-02-25 12:40 GMT+00:00 Graham R. Armstrong <[email protected]>:

> It's good that you're categorising your responses, obviously a lot of
> people on this mailing list are in the arena of law or the arena of
> computing (or both) and naturally this is the sort of area where people are
> pretty liberal about digital content. Though if I may criticise a bit, I
> feel there are some questions where I'd prefer for my answer to be
> dependent upon something. It might not matter, and keep in mind I'm most
> certainly not an expert, but there were occasions I thought "yes" was a
> viable option but only in certain circumstances but answering "don't know"
> felt a bit of a cop-out when I did know, but couldn't adequately express.
>

Yes, "it depends" might have had better semantics. Trying to find out what
people actually think about copying turns out to be hard without lots of
resources (which I don't have). Ideally you'd want to put people in
behavioural labs and watch what they did in controlled experiments and ask
them for reflection on their personal norms about what they did.

Some of my ruminations on the difficulties putting the survey together are
here:

http://www.francisdavey.co.uk/2014/02/copynorm-survey-answering-some-questions.html

I'm just short of my target number of responses so things are going well
(thanks all ORG discuss people who did the survey or shared it or better
still both). Not everyone who answered regards themselves as particularly
techie so I have a sub-sample which I can compare.

Some time later in the year I'll release the results.

-- 
Francis Davey
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