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Re: Go-ahead for a community survey

Hi Michael,

I've had a look at the questionnaire, and have spotted a few issues
with it. I'd be happy to provide you with some more substantive
feedback. (I have a background in social research.)

There are a couple of bigger issues with self-selection survey that we
need to consider though. The main one is sample bias - since people
will be volunteering to fill in the survey, we will have no idea how
representative it is of GNOME users. Worse still, it could possibly
suffer from efforts to recruit people based on their preexisting
opinions ("fill in the survey to tell the GNOME project how much we
hate GNOME 3" / "fill in the survey to tell the GNOME developers how
much you love GNOME 3").

My concern about this is that any results that are generated will be
highly suggestive. If you publish something saying that 99% of
respondents love/hate GNOME 3, it will appear that 99% of all users
love/hate GNOME 3, and that is how the result will be interpreted.
Yet, we will have no idea how that result actually relates to the
GNOME 3 user population as a whole. That wouldn't be very good
publicity, and it wouldn't help us get a better idea about the
attitudes and opinions of everyone who uses GNOME.

This problem is compounded by the fact that many people don't even
know that they are running GNOME; a lot of people only identify their
distribution as the thing that they use.

Allan

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Michael Heyns
<mike bean heyns gmail com> wrote:

At first I wasn't sure if I should span all of 3.x because many of the
issues of previous releases have been pinpointed by now.

But in hindsight and looking at which versions are default for most distros,
it makes much more sense.

I will make the appropriate changes.
Thank you, everybody.

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On 24/05/2013 6:05 AM, "Brett Legree" <brett legree gmail com> wrote:


I think that it looks great, and I agree with Fabiana and Karen that it
would be good to expand it beyond just GNOME 3.8 (to perhaps see just what
versions people are using).

Brett

On May 23, 2013 1:49 PM, "Fabiana Simões" <fabianapsimoes gmail com>
wrote:


That looks great! This kind of information is much needed, thank you.


Me too! I do have one question - did you intentionally limit the survey
to
3.8? Or did you want to make the survey about 3.x? I think it's unlikely
right now that anyone running 3.8 has it because someone else installed
it
for them or because it's the default on their distro. It'll take some
time
for that :)



One idea is to focus the survey on the 3.x family, instead of in a single
release. With this, we would also be able to explore the perceived
improvement of GNOME 3 for those users that have been using it since 3.0 (or
later). For example, we could ask 1) what release they are currently using
and how do they rate it; and 2) how do they rate the improvement between
this release and the first one they used (would be interesting to know which
release was that).

- Fabiana


On 23 May 2013 12:29, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:


On Thu, May 23, 2013 10:13 am, Emily Gonyer wrote:

Fantastic Michael! Thanks - I can't wait to see the results!


Me too! I do have one question - did you intentionally limit the survey
to
3.8? Or did you want to make the survey about 3.x? I think it's unlikely
right now that anyone running 3.8 has it because someone else installed
it
for them or because it's the default on their distro. It'll take some
time
for that :)

karen




On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Michael Heyns
<mike bean heyns gmail com>wrote:


Dear Gnome Team,

I trust this is an appropriate method of communication. I have been a
Gnome user since 2004 and I haven't contributed much besides the odd
bug
report but I am very enthusiastic about the platform and have really
enjoyed Gnome 3.x so far.

In an effort to understand more about my fellow users, I designed a
questionnaire with no hidden agenda besides pure curiosity and the
hope
that information could be of some use to somebody.

I didn't want to start promoting it all over the internet before
consulting with you as I don't want to step on any toes. Please have
a
look
at it and tell me what you think. Maybe I can improve on it.

Unofficial Gnome 3.8 User Survey - 2013: http://goo.gl/pC48p

I work with information systems and have a fair understanding of
statistics so I plan on compiling summaries and reports once the
feedback
is strong enough.

I look forward to hearing from you and as always I am very grateful
for
everything you do for me and my computers :) (too cheesy?)

All the best,

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