Just a comment on Fredrick's input. Selecting the sample is one of the
most difficult parts of a survey to get right. The self selection part
of this survey makes it open to bias, as Frederick has commented this is
compounded by the platform. I'm not making a comment about if the
platform is appropriate or not just that if it affects your response
then it begins to cast doubt on your results.
The second is knowing enough about your target audience so they will
understand your questions. Perhaps have someone non technical with an
English Language background, a librarian, for example check it for
jargon. One technique is to run a trial survey against a true random
sample. I don't think this was done here.
If they don't understand what you're asking then you aren't going to get
a reliable answers and to be honest I didn't.
I'm not sure if this particular survey is trying to justify a particular
stance or get accurate information.
Cheerio John
Frederik Ramm wrote on 4/30/2023 11:18 AM:
Hi,
On 4/28/23 15:57, Marc_marc wrote:
I am impressed (and disappointed) that those who do these surveys
have still not learned that part of the active opendata community
does not wish to ally a closeddata based enterprise (nominally:
no use of google forms for some of us).
Agree. It's one thing for an OSMF working group to use a closed
source/siloed product internally, but quite another to attempt to
engage with the community via such a product.
I am not surprised when a commercial company like Tom Tom does that
without a second thought, but I would expect more from an OSMF working
group.
Please find a way for non-Google users to participate in this survey,
or your results will be biased to the point of un-suitability because
they will lack responses from people who'd rather not engage with
Google, i.e. the whole "communication behaviours" of this group of
people would not be represented.
Bye
Frederik
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