On 15 April 2014 19:40, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:12:29 +0200, Steven Walling > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> When it comes to using a survey to catch problems early and gauging >> preferences, a survey still very much suffers from the self-selection bias >> that all opt-in options have. It's just the name of the game. When you >> move >> something from opt-in to opt-out you reach a wider audience and encounter >> new complaints/questions/bugs. > How is self-selection bias relevant here? People who are not interested in > taking surveys won't take the survey, of course, but I don't see how that > diminishes the value of the results one might get. I quite like this idea. Indeed. Even a user survey with a known bias is better than pure praxeology. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
