On 15 April 2014 19:40, Bartosz DziewoĆski <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:12:29 +0200, Steven Walling
<steven.walling(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> When it comes to using a survey to catch problems
early and gauging
> preferences, a survey still very much suffers from the self-selection bias
> that all opt-in options have. It's just the name of the game. When you
> move
> something from opt-in to opt-out you reach a wider audience and encounter
> new complaints/questions/bugs.
How is self-selection bias relevant here? People who
are not interested in
taking surveys won't take the survey, of course, but I don't see how that
diminishes the value of the results one might get. I quite like this idea.
Indeed. Even a user survey with a known bias is better than pure praxeology.
- d.