<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">If you look at the survey it asks the question after two others about you education level and "In what department did you complete your education?"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Which sort of implies an expectation that you have some sort of University degree in something relevant.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Then look at the answers you need to select from</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail-freebirdFormviewerViewItemsGridCell" style="display:table-cell;height:2.5em;min-width:48px;padding:0.25em;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;width:120px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I have no experiences</div><div class="gmail-freebirdFormviewerViewItemsGridCell" style="display:table-cell;height:2.5em;min-width:48px;padding:0.25em;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;width:120px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I have little experiences</div><div class="gmail-freebirdFormviewerViewItemsGridCell" style="display:table-cell;height:2.5em;min-width:48px;padding:0.25em;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;width:120px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I think, It is quite good</div><div class="gmail-freebirdFormviewerViewItemsGridCell" style="display:table-cell;height:2.5em;min-width:48px;padding:0.25em;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;width:120px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I have very good experiences</div><div class="gmail-freebirdFormviewerViewItemsGridCell" style="display:table-cell;height:2.5em;min-width:48px;padding:0.25em;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;width:120px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'm a professional<br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">It doesn't make sense to me. Which means in turn different people will interpret the question differently. Your interpretation is perfectly valid but it isn't the only one especially when you take into account the suggested answers and the questions that came before it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm a professional racing driver, I'm professional. I have really good experiences down the pub wiv me mates each Friday night downing six pints of beer each, how is that relevant to OSM mapping? Well we did an impromptu mapathon for HOT last Friday I suppose.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Then you get into the age of people. These days around 40+% of the population go to University, fifty years ago in the UK it was 5%. You're comparing apples to oranges if you compare the number with university degrees.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">There is a lot more to running a useful survey than people think. You need to do a trial and see if your understanding is the same as others and the sample selection is critical. If you get a group of paid mappers replying, they do do a lot of mapping, you probably won't find many PhD's in your responses. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">"How many changes have you made to OSM since that time?" the OSM term is edits and is shown on your profile. Using the same terms lessens the confusion.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">There is also the concept of respondent burden. The person running the survey is only one, but OSM contributions by this that and the other is a very popular subject for a thesis </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Cheerio John</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 19:25, Pat Tressel <<a href="mailto:ptressel@myuw.net">ptressel@myuw.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Patrick Hand",fantasy;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">6. What do you think about your professionalism in terms of
skills needed for OSM?<span></span></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Without having seen the survey, I'd say that means:</div><div><br></div><div>How do you rate your skill level in OSM mapping?</div><div><br></div><div>That is, sounds like it is asking you to self-evaluate. E.g.: I'm just starting out. I've been around a while and have done multiple types of mapping. All the way to... I can answer any how-to question and have memorized all the tagging conventions for Africa. :D :D :D<br></div></div></div>
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