On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
2009/1/22 Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com:
It is now 11 weeks later. Any idea when we might see the survey results released?
I've sent the survey team a first set of priority questions for analysis. I haven't received an ETA yet, but I will report results as soon as they become available, and I hope it's a matter of weeks, not months, at this point. This will not yet be the full in-depth analysis, which will probably take until March/April.
This still feels like an awful long time. I understand the desire to do synthesis and interpretation, but is there some reason why basic summary data can't be released much faster than 3+ months? For example, the number of people choosing each option on each question. While there is value in picking apart subgroups and performing regressions (especially when you have such a huge sample size!), many of us aren't even sure what the first-order patterns will look like so it would be nice to see some data released.
-Robert Rohde