Yes, but supposedly phone survey companies are able to get representative samples of broad populations despite many people refusing to respond to phone surveys. If opt-in users were chosen using similar methods, could arguably representative data be obtained?
Pine On Sep 18, 2014 1:32 PM, "Benj. Mako Hill" <m...@atdot.cc> wrote: > <quote who="Pine W" date="Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:07:53PM -0700"> > > I suppose you could get more granular data by conducting an opt-in study > of > > some kind, and you would need to be careful that users who haven't opted > in > > are not accidentally included or indirectly have their privacy affected. > I > > agree that collection at intervals shorter than an hour is going to > raise a > > lot of privacy considerations for users who have not opted in. > > That would certainly work for some research questions and that's more > or less what most toolbar data is. > > The problem is that often questions answered with view data are about > the overall popularity of visibility of pages which requires data that > is representative. There's lots of reasons to believe that people who > opt-in aren't going to be representative of all Wikipedia readers. > > Regards, > Mako > > > -- > Benjamin Mako Hill > http://mako.cc/ > > Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far > as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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