On Wednesday 07 August 2019, Simon Poole wrote: > > @the designers of the survey. The question wrt remote mapping would > seem to be designed to achieve a specific result.
I can also see some expectations and assumptions being visible 'between the lines' in some questions but this looks more like projecting own preconceptions and state of mind and less like active manipulation. There seem to be overall a lot of questions where there is a high likelihood that many participants will answer a different question than what those designing the survey wanted to ask - due to unclear and vague terminology for example and due to ambiguous references. The question you referred to for example says "Do you remotely map other countries?" and it is unclear if the "other" refers to the country where you live or to "where do you map mostly". Pure armchair mappers only mapping in a single country might answer "No" to this question. My main concern is rather that there are a lot of free form questions yet there is no option for the participants to allow publication of the individual free form answers in anonymized form. This means we will - just like in the previous survey - only learn about any of these answers through the lens of the subjective interpretation of those making the aggregation. This provides a lot of room for distortion through either cultural bias or deliberate selectivity of those doing the aggregation which kind of defeats the whole idea of doing a survey to reach parts of the community that are otherwise not visible. In other words: What the survey says is you are welcome to provide your ideas through the survey but we, the creators of the survey, reserve the right to interpret your answers as we see fit and neither you nor anyone else may correct us if we do not correctly interpret what you wrote. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
