Hi William (and everyone else),
What I meant by private and anonymous is that even though the
information you provide me could very well be published I won't
publish your name and it should not be easy to link individual
responses back to individual respondents.
I did not know about Harald Schilly, thanks for letting me know.
Thanks for the suggestion about Google Docs forms, it seems a bit late
to redo it all now.
I hope you'll take the time to fill out the questionnaire ... I
equivocated about inserting the "complete and accurate" thing and in
hindsight it was probably dumb, I just wanted to discourage any
"ballot stuffing". I've looked at other research, we've gone through
this in class, I'm more a tech person / philosopher type than
sociologist so I hope you'll appreciate that I'm doing the best I can.
Kind regards,
Anthony
2011/7/11 William Stein <wst...@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Anthony Durity
> <anthony.dur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello again!
>>
>> First of all, thank you so much to everyone who has already replied.
>>
>> Recently I put out a request for volunteers to answer a few questions.
>> I got some responses but considering there are 1331 (11^3 , an
>
> Your attached odt file begins "All information you provide will remain
> private and anonymous.". The first question you ask after that is for
> my first and last name.
> In what sense is this anonymous? So I'm not convinced you have
> thought through how to do human subjects research... (I don't claim I
> have either, but I had to deal with a review board for human subjects
> research at Univ of Washington a few weeks ago for a grant I'm on, and
> it was clear that one of my co-PI's *had* thought through doing human
> subjects research, and I learned something from what they did.)
>
> It also seems weird ending with "I certify that the information given
> in this application is complete and accurate." and requiring a
> signature.
>
> Incidentally, Harald Schilly has done some surveys in the past with
> very similar questions to the Sage community. He used Google Docs
> forms [1], which are much more pleasant to fill out than Word
> documents, and the information in them automatically goes into a
> spreadsheet. You might consider using them or something similar.
>
> [1] https://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=87809
>
>
>> auspicious number) members in this mailing list according to Google I
>> thought I would repeat my call. But this time I will attach the
>> questionnaire rather than ask you to respond to me individually -
>> though of course you can do that also.
>>
>> May I just say that I realize that you are busy and that this request
>> may seem as somewhat tangential to your project and your work but I
>> would like to convince you that it is in your own best interest to
>> respond. And if you don't respond I would like to hear your reason
>> also if that would not be too much trouble (no time / could not be
>> bothered / do not see the value in it / and so on). The questionnaire
>> is not that long (I personally hate form-filling myself) and none of
>> the answers are obligatory, all information is private and
>> confidential, you will remain anonymous and I will not publish
>> anything without your consent. Honest.
>>
>> I believe that providing responses for my research will help this
>> project in multiple ways. It will help you provide historical and
>> social documentation for your project. It will definitely increase
>> awareness of the project and the goals and ambitions of the project
>> members. As one of my research goals is understanding how open source
>> mathematical tools could achieve parity (at least in terms of
>> mindshare and use) with proprietary tools the more responses I get the
>> better a position I will be in to make a stab at this.
>>
>> Lastly, I am based in Finland - I would love to head over to Seattle
>> to meet you at your Bug Days or Women in Sage events but that will not
>> be possible. I should in all probability make it to the Singular Days
>> event in Germany at the end of September though so look forward to
>> seeing some of you there in person.
>>
>> Kind regards and best wishes,
>> Anthony Durity
>>
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