** Alan Bell <[email protected]> [2011-05-25 12:24]: > On 25/05/11 12:14, Paul Tansom wrote: > >** Avi Greenbury<[email protected]> [2011-05-25 09:05]: > >>It's a bit weird that I can pick several different versions of > >>Ubuntu (Unity, Gnome, KDE, XFCE etc.) but only one install medium... > >** end quote [Avi Greenbury] > > > >Yes, I ran up against the problem of which type of install to choose. I can > >pick from: > > > >o as the only OS, from a live CD or USB > >o alongside another OS, from a live CD or USB > >o as the only OS, from a text installer > > > >as I use all 3, likely about equally. You also don't have 'preinstalled' on > >there, which may not be commong, but my VPS was preinstalled with Ubuntu LTS > >:) > >When I get round to reinstalling it I think it will likely be installed from > >an > >image, but that may be taking things too far!! > > > I asked maco for the preinstalled option, maybe that question should > be checkboxes rather than radio buttons. In all surveys there are > edge cases where some questions are hard to answer for some people, > and fixing that would make the survey over complicated so that other > people find it hard, or the results are not compilable into useful > statistics. ** end quote [Alan Bell]
Indeed, getting useful data out of surveys as opposed to simply creating survey data to support a pre determined conclusion (see details on just about any survey quoted on an advert!) is a nightmare. Lies, damn lies and statistice!! Too much flexibility in the options and you can't make any sensible conclusions, too little and those conclusions have been influenced :) Perhaps some means of entering multiple surveys would help (although that creates the issue of people trying to influence the result artificially). For example, I tend to dual boot my desktops, but netbooks will be purely Linux, and servers will be purely Linux from the text installer - so in my case these are very distinct instances that would likely impact the next set of questions depending on machine purpose. Of course some will have a variety of cases for a desktop, but adding in machine type and allowing a set of entries for each type may help, possibly, perhaps ;) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ====================================================================== Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
