Studies and surveys are interesting for a better understanding of our community, but I'm a bit afraid that the results of this one will be highly biased by one single thing: language.
OSM is already very english centric and having a survey that is only available in english won't help understand the OSM community worldwide, just a part of it. It would be interesting to have the same survey being done in another language and compare the results... 2014-08-23 14:48 GMT+02:00 john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com>: > Looking at what they are doing I'd say the information being dug out will > be of value to the OSM community and help us understand a little more about > the people who add value to the maps. It might even help us on the > retention rate and bring the experience of the average mapper up a little. > It's also being done fairly professionally and running something like this > properly costs money, at least its not OSM money. > > In an ideal world the way to get a proper random sample would be to select > OSM mappers randomly then message them. Hopefully you'd get better than > 90% response rate to keep it statistically meaningful. > > Reality is you might be lucky to obtain a 2% response. So the next best > thing is OSM-talk and hopefully he'll get the 1,000 responses which he > needs to make it statistically meaningful. He didn't get that many > responses from the OSM-talk message. OSM-talk is bias in that we don't > have that many average mappers here, the national OSM mailing lists have > more so it makes sense to make the request to a larger audience. > > OSM is difficult in that it crosses so many cultural boundaries but in > this case I think the cross posting was reasonable to obtain the desired > number of respondents. > > How would you suggest he obtained a large enough random sample? > > Thanks > > Cheerio John > > > On 23 August 2014 06:05, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> > If you are at least 18 years of age and speak English, >> >> [...] >> >> The same message has meanwhile been posted to a whole lot of national >> OSM mailing lists, with an additional "** apologies for cross-posting >> **" at the top. >> >> If you know it is something that you shouldn't be doing, then sticking >> an upfront apology at the top doesn't cut it really. This is impolite, >> and disrespectful. >> >> Bye >> Frederik >> >> -- >> Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France
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