Hi, 2011/8/1 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com>: > I other words, you are saying that it doesn't matter if 100% of the > responders of this survey say GNOME has too few options, nothing would > be done? Is there *any* kind of evidence that would convince GNOME ppl > that users want more options? Or is it what the wishes of users are > completely irrelevant?
It seems you are starting under the assumption that the results of the survey will be representative of G3 users as a whole. What are your plans to make sure people unhappy with GNOME are not over represented in the poll results? Given the kind of questions, it's bound to attract answers from people who want more options, and I don't think how we can go from "N% of the people who took the survey said they wanted more options" to "M% of *all* G3 users want more options". To me, these figures will be totally unrelated, unless I missed something in the way you want to run the poll. Since your actual goal seems to use this survey results to pressure people into adding more options to GNOME (where "more options" probably really means "the options you want to have"), I'm afraid this poll will turn into "I want to prove X, let's design a survey whose result will be X". I even suspect that you'd get different results by adding something like "Do you get confused by software with too many configuration options ? Yes/No" " before asking the question about the amount of configuration options ;) In short, I think making a good poll is really hard, especially if you want to use this poll to prove that some specific point is true or not. Imo, the best we can get from a poll is "ok, some people think X, unfortunately we have no idea about what the people who did not answer the poll think" Christophe _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list