On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:18:29 -0400 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> A quick update. We've been running for 18 hours, enough time to get > around the globe. > > So far we have 1712 responses. > > It is probably worth thinking about what we want to do with all the > data. I did an analysis of the results so far, and some quick > thoughts: > > 1) The question asking for person's age appears to be useless. Unless > we have an unusual number of users in their 70's , 80's and 90's, a > large number of users are entering their birth year rather than their > age. So I'm planning on just ignoring that field. (This is probably > why you often see this done as a drop down list of years in other > surveys, less error prone). > > 2) I will be able to produce a list of logos, sorted by average score > and given the % breakdown of 1's, 2's, 3's, etc. Maybe even a > histogram chart for each. > > 3) We're receiving a lot of comments on the individual logos, many > more than I expected. So we can expect that for each logo there will > be 200 or more text comments. I'm not sure what we want to do with > these. Since this is an anonymous survey the users are quite blunt > with their comments on the logos they did not prefer, using coarse > language, etc., stuff that would be inappropriate if a list subscriber > posted. It is not all constructive criticism. Some of it is quite > harsh. On the other hand, there is a tremendous amount of valuable > feedback as well, that we and the designers specifically might find > useful. So what to do? > > a) Post it all, the good the bad and the ugly? > > b) Remove or censor only profanity and post the rest? > > c) Make feedback available only to the individual designers via email > > d) Publicly post the feedback only for the top 5 logos, share the rest > privately with the individual designers. > > e) Something else? > > > -Rob > d is best option We are only interested in the 5 best (although if there are close ties for places this ought be extended); we don't care about the comments for the "also rans" (to use a horse-racing term. If there were a preponderance of comments for any of the top five suggesting a particular modification, the designer might wish to revise his design for the run-off (even to the extent, I suggest, of allowing him have the original and the revision in the run-off). -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
