"Dr. Bas Wijnen" <wij...@debian.org> writes: > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 11:51:23PM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> I think it's a horrible idea. One of the major draws of Debian is that >> we are all here for our own reasons. I don't judge your motivations >> and you don't judge nine. > It's voluntary, so you decide what you want to share. If you don't want to > share anything, that's fine. How is this meaningful if it's strictly voluntary and no conclusions should ever be drawn from it? I'm personally reasonably comfortable with declaring conflicts, but then mine are pretty simple and pose no complex ethical concerns. I understand Scott's concern: I see no way in which this would stay strictly voluntary and meaningless if it were widely used. One can say anything one likes on the page about not drawing conclusions from the data, but if no one is supposed to draw any conclusions, why are we collecting the data? In practice, if lots of people fill this out, people *will* draw conclusions about people who are missing, will exert social pressure for people to fill this out in various situations, and will draw conclusions from the data that's disclosed. This is just human nature, and is only logical. If we don't want that to happen, we shouldn't collect the data in the first place. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>