Again, I am not suggesting canceling anyone's health insurance or replacing it with increased salary. I am only trying to say that in the case of when a parent or sibling faces catastrophic medical expenses in the U.S., just over two years of the difference between typical junior software engineer pay at the Wikimedia and Mozilla foundations is the same amount that the average American who enters bankruptcy because of medical expenses has in debt.
> On 5 January 2013 11:11, Thomas Morton <morton.tho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> So the foundation should NOT throw money at staff without showing that >> paying extra would bring the charity significant increases in value. If the nine reviews added to http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Wikimedia-Foundation-Reviews-E38331.htm over the past two weeks does not establish that, then I can't imagine anything will. >>> A representative sample of 384 donors is sufficient to establish the >>> answer with 95% confidence. I am not suggesting asking all however >>> many million there have been. >> >> I call this number the magic 384, it's a common rookie mistake when >> designing surveys for a million people. >> >> With a sample size of 384 you do get 95% confidence, with a confidence >> interval of 5%. So the data is fairly meaningless (if 49% of your >> respondents say X then that could represent anything from 44 to 54 percent >> of the population). If my preliminary informal survey of a much smaller number of donors is representative, then the results will be much closer to 100% agreeing that the Foundation should meet or exceed market pay than 50%. >> You need around 12000 for any solid degree of confidence. And I believe we >> have a lot more than a million donors across a wide variety of cultures. That is absurdly excessive. There has never been a Foundation donor survey of more than 3,760 donors, and that number was only chosen because of a requirement to measure fine grained demographics in categories for which few respondents were expected. 384 is plenty to resolve a yes/no or below/meet/exceed question at the 95% confidence level unless anyone has any actual evidence that the result is likely to be close. I am convinced that if asked, donors would think it is irresponsible to pay so little that Oracle employees are more satisfied. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l