Re: GNOME user survey 2011

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

What are you actually trying to understand ?

If there are tradeoffs (and consensus that the tradeoff is real) then you
can ask questions where you rate relative importance of features in
various combinations It's often used to weight things like
price/screensize, screensize/battery life, battery life/weight and so on.

Is there a reason it can't be used to ask about ease of
configuration/flexibility, flexibility/reliability, etc

I agree asking "are there enough options" isn't useful but you could ask

"If you could configure three extra things what would they be"

and leave a text box. If most people leave it blank it tells you a lot,
if everyone lists a thing you can do it tells you about doc problems, if
there is a consensus on some things then it tells you other stuff.


Alan