On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:14 PM, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote:
> One major problem with surveys is the responses. You really want a cross > section sample so to be meaningful you'd need to generate a random list of > OSM users to send the questionnaire to then try to get the highest response > rate possible. OSM would need to be involved to send the questionnaire out > by email. if it is possible that would be great and I design another questionnaire to be sent out to all users, of course by OSM support. > The number needed to create the sample would need to be worked out > mathematically but it could be done. > > Language is a problem. > > The emails would need to stress the importance of replying even if the > person concerned felt their answers were not important. > > I think probably it would make sense to run once a year then over time > multiple years you can see trends. > > I'm not certain if you'd target active mappers or inactive ones, we have a > fair number of these. One technique is to have a basic questionnaire and a > more detailed questionnaire which is sent out to a smaller sub section of > the sample. > Doesn't matter the users are active or inactive If the user_id is given I check the history of their contributions as well. > > I would suggest a coordinated approach since the bigger the survey the > better the quality of results. It needs a small committee to balance > respondent burden with the value of the research. I'd also suggest a > sample survey is run first, sometimes the questions or possible answers > don't make sense to the respondents. For example job, retired isn't an > option yet many mappers are retired. > > Cheerio John > > > > On 27 June 2013 14:55, Kai Krueger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I tried sending this mail through nabble earlier on, but it doesn't seem >> to have gone through, so I'll try and resend. If you did get this email >> twice, I apologise. >> >> >> ----- >> Clifford Snow wrote >> >Your survey is mostly demographics. There were two actual questions >> >related >> >to mapping. I'm not sure what you hope to achieve. >> >> Understanding the demographics of the mapping community can be a very >> interesting question and topic of research. >> >> After all, there has just been set up a new mailing list >> "diversity-talk", to discuss the demographics of openstreetmap and how >> to achieve a broad appeal to many different demographic groups. Having >> some good hard numbers about the current situation, to augment the data >> we already have, would be rather helpful. >> >> If good methods can be worked out how to achieve those numbers, these >> studies can be repeated periodically. That can then be helpful, amongst >> other things, to see if various outreach programs to try and diversify >> the community have had success, and if yes in which demographics. >> >> Understanding the motivation of mappers can also be hugely interesting! >> This information can help figure out how best to promote OSM and get >> more people involved in mapping and where best to focus efforts to >> attract more people. >> >> >Clifford Snow wrote >> >Please rethink this survey and try again. >> >> Without knowing the questions this research is trying to answer and what >> other tools and data they are using as well as their analysis method, >> you cannot judge if it is a good survey and appropriately set up for the >> questions it hopes to address. Furthermore, good research in social >> sciences is often incredibly difficult. As you usually have no >> interventional control on the subject of study and you often have to >> deal with subjective reports in surveys. So it is often not uncommon to >> have to ask many seemingly redundant and strange questions in order to >> get around or detect biases. >> >> >Clifford Snow wrote >> >As Frederik Ramm suggest, please >> >explain more about your research. >> >> I would be very interested in hearing more about the research as well. >> However, there are situations when you don't want to reveal the actual >> questions you are interested in ahead of time to your survey >> participants as alone the knowledge of what the researcher is interested >> can bias the results. With the relatively factual questions of this >> survey that seems less likely though.. >> >> Overall, I think there is more than enough room for a lot of different >> research, both social and gis research in the OSM community and its >> data. Imho it is great to see research into these topics and the more >> the better! >> >> Kai >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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