[Novalug] survey request from college students

jerry w jerrywone@gmail.com
Wed Jun 23 13:37:15 EDT 2010


It would depend upon who is doing the survey
(Perl Foundation for example may have more
"legitate" goals than a marketing survey
from the competition in Redmond,
or their contractors)

Also, college students tend to need to do
projects, and a real survey will likely have
their prof and /or other contacts to
see for more information/ disputes, etc.

Clinical surveys/ in the health sciences
require human subjects guidelines
and are more emotional/ etc...

I also like to hear what is done with
the results, if you complete the survey
to you get the copy of the report
(say emailed to you and does the
survey give to a copy of what
you spend time filling out??).

Are responses anonymized
and aggregate?
Who has access to the responses?

Like a lot of things the questions
you ask depend up on the responses
you will get.   The biases of the
surveyors are also sometimes
evident especially in poorly done
ones...

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:14 PM, John Warren <jpwarren00@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jay Hart <jhart@kevla.org> wrote:
>>
>> I know, sound like an a-hole, gotcha...
>>
>> Jay
>>
>
> I feel the same way about taking FOSS survey's.
> -John W
> "Professional FOSS A-hole"
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Jerry W



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