[HOT] Questionnaire

[john whelan]

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?"

Which sort of implies an expectation that you have some sort of University
degree in something relevant.

Then look at the answers you need to select from

I have no experiences
I have little experiences
I think, It is quite good
I have very good experiences
I'm a professional
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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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

Cheerio John

On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 19:25, Pat Tressel <ptressel at myuw.net> wrote:

>
>
> 6. What do you think about your professionalism in terms of skills needed
>> for OSM?
>>
>
> Without having seen the survey, I'd say that means:
>
> How do you rate your skill level in OSM mapping?
>
> 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
>
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