[OSM-talk] Survey coming
Christoph Hormann
osm at imagico.de
Sun Jan 10 11:48:28 UTC 2021
On Sunday 10 January 2021, Allan Mustard wrote:
>
> The OpenStreetMap Foundation Board of Directors has prepared a
> survey, which is now being translated into multiple languages, and
> which we hope will be ready for release in several languages on or
> about January 15th. [...]
Since i did not see any consultation with the community about the design
of the survey - did the board obtain outside advice from people with
experience doing surveys on a diverse group of people with the aim to
gather meaningful statistical data? I am somewhat wary about that
because past boards have used surveys often in a rather suboptimal way
more as an instrument of asymmentric and selective political
communication rather than as a means to gauge the views and mindset of
the community in a neutral and statistically meaningful fashion and
interpreting the results as reaffirmation for pre-existing views on
their side. See http://blog.imagico.de/on-surveying-the-surveyors/ for
some past discussion on that.
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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/
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