[Foundation-l] Editor Survey, 2011

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2011/3/11 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.rs>:
> On 03/11/2011 10:52 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>> I noticed the "Take a WMF-sponsored survey on barriers to expert
>> participation in Wikipedia." banner on the top of English Wiktionary
>> the other day. I clicked it and answered a whole page of questions
>> that were interesting and relevant. And the next page presented the
>> same bunch of questions again, somewhat rephrased. I hate it when that
>> happens and i immediately closed the survey; my answers to the
>
> This is sometimes done so that if someone is not seriously answering the
> form, the answers to similar questions will be different, and so they
> may be disregarded. But yeah, experts are probably not going to not
> seriously answer the form.

I know - it's not the first time i see a survey with repeated
questions and it's not the first time i fill up a long one. But
sometimes enough is enough. Experts may be severely offended by the
thought that someone suspects they aren't seriously answering the
form. I certainly was and i'm just a B.A.; i suspect that many Ph.D.'s
gave up long before i did.

>> relevant questions on the first page probably went to the drain.
>
> You could've just clicked 'Next' to the end.

The simple answer: Maybe, but how could i know that?

The smartass answer: Maybe, but how could i know that after clicking
'Next' i wouldn't be presented with a stupid JavaScript error message,
punishing me for clicking 'Next' before filling the required fields?

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