[OSM-dev] Research survey on bots and automated edits

[Andy Townsend]

On 19/08/2022 16:50, Niels van Berkel wrote:
> We are running a short survey - which should take roughly five to ten 
> minutes of your time.
>
In addition to what has already been said, it does look like a 
particularly poorly-designed survey, even by the historically low 
standards of "academics with little prior knowledge running surveys on 
OSM".  I tried to look at the questions and was unable to do so without 
actually submitting an entry*.

There is genuine useful ground for research here on all sorts of levels, 
and good work has been done in the past - an examination of the nature 
of edits (almost none are completely automated, but many mappers rely on 
automatically generated QA indicators) would make a lot of sense, but 
this survey is not it.

Best Regards,

Andy

* Please therefore disregard any submissions from "0 years old people in 
Afghanistan"

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