[HOT] Fwd: [OpenStreetMap] Student Survey Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Goethe-University Frankfurt

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

All of the people involved in sending the survey request have contacted 
me and followed up with the HOT Board.

They have all expressed their sincere apologies for the concerns they 
caused and stopped their current method of contacting people.

Because HOT and OSM in general are always happy to work with researchers 
to the best of our ability while respecting all of our users' privacy 
and good will, we are in the process of figuring out how best for the 
researchers to still collect the data they need using a different 
approach and complete their project.

As I told the researchers: I think we all learned a little here and I 
know HOT will be improving the visibility of how to contact and work 
with us for research projects in the future.

Regards,
Blake

On 6/11/2015 8:35 PM, Katja Ulbert wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> it wasn´t my intention to falsify their results;-) But the request
> didn´t come from HOT itself, so I wanted to check if anybody knew about
> it. I have never given my email or contact data to this university. They
> are registered as a HOT user and send me a message.
>
> Regards
>
> Katja
>
> Am 11/06/15 um 19:42 schrieb john whelan:
>> If you've been selected for a random sample, and it is a true random
>> sample, passing the link to anyone else effectively contaminates the
>> sample.
>>
>> Random sampling is a mathematical technique that is used in surveys to
>> draw conclusions based on a small sample that can be extrapolated to a
>> larger population.
>>
>> By passing the link on the responses will be bias towards more
>> experienced mappers who read the list, so to preserve the methodology
>> the survey should only be completed by the person it was sent to.
>>
>> There was a discussion earlier in the list with a comment from Pierre
>> saying it would be useful to run slightly different surveys with
>> questions aimed at new mappers, mappers with some experience and  very
>> experienced mappers.  I don't know if this survey is of that type.
>>
>> Cheerio John
>>
>
>
>
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