[Foundation-l] Survey wrap-up

[Robert Rohde]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 2009/1/22 Robert Rohde <rarohde at 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