I appreciate that phrasing questions neutrally can be somewhat difficult. But I think there are too many leading or negatively phrased questions to produce useful information. Starting the section with "Editing Wikipedia may damage one's scientific reputation" rather sets an anti wikipedia tone.
Also I'd switch the sequence between individual and collective perception. Putting the section about the individual before the collective section would start with something that respondents should more easily be able to answer - some people simply won't feel that they can answer questions on behalf of people in their field if they are unaware of those other people's views.
WereSpielChequers
On 7 February 2011 12:16, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote:
All,
the Expert Barrier survey is ready to run. We took into account most of the suggestions we received during the pilot phase and we are planning to release the survey by Wednesday morning London time, in time for the Imperial College Recruitment Drive [1]. Here is a link to a live preview:
http://nitens.org/ls/?sid=21693
(some blocks of questions are hidden depending on how participants answer in the first screen when asked whether they ever contributed to WP)
If you have a moment to give it a try, comments are welcome by Tuesday night PST.
Best, Dario, Giota and Daniel
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