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</head><body text="#000000">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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I'm not sure if this particular survey is trying to justify a particular
stance or get accurate information. <br>
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Cheerio John<br>
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<span>Frederik Ramm wrote on 4/30/2023 11:18 AM:</span><br>
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cite="mid:9cad1574-a2aa-adbd-123a-b0c9fb21aad6@remote.org">Hi,
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On 4/28/23 15:57, Marc_marc wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I am impressed (and disappointed) that those
who do these surveys
<br>have still not learned that part of the active opendata community
<br>does not wish to ally a closeddata based enterprise (nominally:
<br>no use of google forms for some of us).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bye
<br>
Frederik
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