Gregory Kohs wrote: >> *phoebe ayers* phoebe.wiki at gmail.com writes: >> >> ++++++ >> I'm not sure there's any way to get a non-self-selected survey about >> anything on the projects due to anonymity concerns. >> ++++++ >> >> I'm a 17-year veteran of implementing professional quantitative >> survey research. Self-selection bias is a very complicated study, >> but there are some fairly accessible and intuitive techniques one >> may implement to create a thoughtful survey of a target population >> which minimizes self-selection bias concerns. This allows the >> stakeholders to focus on the challenge of deriving meaning from the >> response data rather than feeling nausea over the sampling >> methodology. >> >> I am willing to give, pro bono, 45 minutes of telephone consulting >> time to any Wikimedia Foundation staff member who is attached to >> this particular survey project, on the condition that they will be >> open and attentive to the possibility that a properly-designed and >> fairly-executed survey may not return results that foster their >> preconceived desires
Except of course, that such a survey would arguably not have "preconceived desires". So much for empiricism! _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l