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Re: Perl questionaire by Gobby

by dsheroh (Monsignor)
on Jun 04, 2021 at 07:19 UTC ( [id://11133498]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Perl questionaire by Gobby

I went through the survey yesterday and I thought the site's methodology was rather questionable. By showing the "most popular so far" responses first, it obviously drives more votes to those responses, while responses which aren't in the Top N (For, I think, N = 8? I didn't pay that close of attention to the chunk size.) aren't displayed at all unless you explicitly request to "see more".

With results that will be so clearly biased by the survey structure itself (even without considering the content of the responses), it really only seems suitable for "fun", "random" polls, not for any kind of serious data-gathering which might be used to influence the policy or direction of worldwide communities or an organization which (somewhat controversially) attempts to guide them.

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Re^2: Perl questionaire by Gobby
by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 04, 2021 at 08:05 UTC

    Looks like it got nuked already. I've yet to see anything stating that this was officially endorsed by TPF, however I'm sceptical of that, having read the Ts&Cs, which was the end of my engagement with the site.

      While the poll was open, it stated that the results would be presented next week at TPRCIC, so it may have been "concluded as planned" rather than nuked.

      I don't recall whether it directly claimed to be endorsed or supported by TPF, but it seemed clear to me that the intent was to provide insight into what "the community" thinks TPF should do (even if TPF may not have requested that information).

      I guess we'll just have to wait until next week and see whether this gets mentioned at the conference at all, or if it sinks into (well-deserved) obscurity.

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