On 03/05/2019 09.25, Myrle Krantz wrote:
Hey all,
I asked my marketing professor for feedback on our current survey. You can
see it in the forwarded email below (shared with his permission).
The context of my question was very gender-oriented and so he answered
accordingly.
He also has ideas about improving the formulation of our questions which I
plan to pursue with him but won't be able to get into before June.
What do you all think of splitting the survey up and taking one diversity
topic at a time? It might also allow us to handle diversity topics more
delicately that aren't solely US-oriented... (contributors living in
Western Europe with Arabic or Turkish origins for example).
I think this makes a lot of sense! :). If we are enough people, we might
even split into some working groups and work on different aspects, then
coordinate surveys etc so it doesn't overlap.
One good research is often better than ten waffly ones without depth,
and as Hernan points out, different topics will also both attract
different responders and slightly shape the results (whether intentional
or not). If we cast the net too wide, we may end up with nothing.
Perhaps we should start by discussing which aspects we'd like to
research, then percolate that into groups of topics and look at them
individually.
Best Regards,
Myrle
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From: Bruno, Hernan <X>
Date: Fri, May 3, 2019 at 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: Revamping the ASF Committer Diversity Survey
To: Myrle Krantz <my...@apache.org>
Hello Myrle,
I wrote that comment very quickly, here is a slightly edited version that
you can share and that would avoid misunderstandings in this sensitive
topic. You can share this with my name.
From the survey feedback, I see there is a strong interest in “diversity”
in general, not just gender diversity. However, I think that a survey of
this nature needs focus. Not because one kind of diversity is more
important than other, but because I have a strong intuition that
respondents would answer differently if asked about gender diversity vs.
diversity in general. While I believe there are commonalities in the
discrimination and harassment that non-men endure and those of non-white
individuals, there are also differences, both in the target respondent,
contexts, etc. One project cannot uncover all the mysteries of
discrimination and fix everything. Making a survey about gender imbalance
will teach you more than making a survey about all the diversity gaps,
because the respondent would be able to focus, understand the context
better, and provide more information. My suggestion is that the project
should be about gender diversity, and explain to the community that other
imbalances are important and will be dealt with separately.
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Prof. Dr. Hernan A. Bruno | University of Cologne
*From: *Myrle Krantz <my...@apache.org>
*Date: *Friday, 3. May 2019 at 10:21
*To: *"Bruno, Hernan" <X>
*Subject: *Re: Revamping the ASF Committer Diversity Survey.
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