[OSM-talk] online survey about the OSM community

[john whelan]

>It is a genuine survey, just those middle questions did not prompt any
sensible answers which is why I gave up :)

It sounds silly but how does one tell if it is a genuine academic survey or
not?  I'd like to see an https link to a known trusted web site and not
just the OSM wiki.  Has the survey been commissioned by a market research
company even though its been run by a University, are they collecting IP
addresses?

We need some type of process to validate survey requests, it isn't just red
tape if people feel they can trust the survey they will be more inclined to
fill it in.  The $100 gift card is fine but do you want people who map or
who fill in surveys for a chance of a $100 gift card, and in these days of
social media it can take minutes for someone to spread on an offer like
this.

Cheerio John


On 20 August 2014 05:38, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> On 20/08/14 09:27, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> > I have to admit I filled the thing in - I assumed the middle questions
> > were perhaps psychology related (psychology of OSM users, etc).
> > It never asks for name, email address, phone, place of work etc, town
> > etc. - just age.
> >
> > Didn't really strike me as phishing.
> >
> > What do people think about this - I'll delete my cookies etc "just in
> > case" it is phishing and run an antivirus scan but does anyone recommend
> > doing anything else?
>
> It is a genuine survey, just those middle questions did not prompt any
> sensible answers which is why I gave up :)
>
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