On Thursday 08 August 2019, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > By speaking directly and publishing my responses i risk being > > challenged and criticized personally. While i don't mind this > > there are definitely a lot of people who don't want or can't do > > this. And many of them probably would not mind their answers being > > published anonymously. > > So essentially all you want is a fourth option in the initial > "Permission" question that is called > > "Publicly, anonymized" ?
Yes, the logical choices that can be offered in a survey like this are IMO: * only allow publication of the statistically aggregated results (what you usually have in an analysis of surveys, like percentages). For free form answers this requires subjective interpretation. * allow anonymized publication of individual answers. The anonymization happens by disconnecting the individual answers from each other so answers allowing the identification of a participants (like OSM user name) cannot be connected to other answers. In addition identifying information could also be redacted from free form answers for publication. * allow full publication of the raw data (which is not really necessary to provide as an option since this participants can easily do on their own). * optionally to either of these allow non-public dissemination of raw data to certain parties. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
