2008/11/1 Michael Bimmler <mbimmler(a)gmail.com>om>:
Well, one the one hand I am quite happy to have a
list where it
doesn't say "United States", "United Kingdom" at the top, then
two
dashes, and then all the "less important countries".
What I agree, though, is that this could have been made more
language-specific, if there had been more preparation time. E.g., if
someone chooses the German version of the survey, Germany, Austria and
Switzerland could have been at the top etc.
Yep, I agree - this was one of our requests, but it was not to be.
These are usability quirks that make it more cumbersome than necessary
to complete the survey, but other than potentially more people not
answering these questions, should not influence the results.
Well, you may end up with a disproportionate representation of people
speaking languages near the beginning of the alphabet. The data about
what speakers of each language do should be fine, but the data about
how many people speak each language will be unreliable.