*a terrible time with that question in particular

(Sorry, autocorrected and I didn't spot it before hitting send)

Aoife Moloney
Fedora Operations Architect

On Tue, Jul 2, 2024, 10:59 AM Aoife Moloney <amolo...@redhat.com> wrote:

> I guess how the question is phrased 'where do you feel like AI/ML has the
> best fit in Fedora' assumes the responder will choose where they feel it
> works best as top choice, and least-best (terrible English :) ) as last, so
> reviewers of the survey would likely assume 'oh the <something> option
> scored lowest, that means people really don't see AI/ML as suiting that use
> case so we shouldn't focus any energy on this option'.
>
> Like I said, it really is great feedback because the tone of the question,
> while deliberately trying to be positive because this is such a
> controversial topic in and of itself, didn't raise this issue of needing a
> 'doesn't fit at all'  option when the survey questions were reviewed before
> going live, and that's something we can take forward for the contributors
> survey too for question structuring.
>
>
>
> The only reluctance I have on scrapping this survey and changing that
> question and then relaunching is that I don't want it to be spammy, because
> I'm sure a lot of folks have already completed the current one and there's
> still the contributor survey too to be launched, but if folks are having a
> terrible that with that question I'm particular, then I will and hope you
> give me another few mins of your day again to fill it back out :)
>
>
>
> Aoife Moloney
> Fedora Operations Architect
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2024, 10:03 AM Luis Correia <luis.f.corr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 09:45, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 4:19 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 08:07:46PM +0100, Aoife Moloney wrote:
>>> > > DJ & Tom - thank you for that clarification on how to interpret your
>>> > > ranking, and I can assure you and other folks who feel similar about
>>> > > answering that question that that is indeed the way we will be
>>> analysing
>>> > > the results - top ranked being best fit, 5th or last ranked being
>>> least or
>>> > > worst fit. Also for anyone who has yet to complete the survey, the
>>> last
>>> > > question is an optional, free format answer so I would suggest using
>>> that
>>> > > to expand on reasons why you ranked certain areas #1, #2 etc for what
>>> > > problems you see AI addressing in those parts of the project.
>>> > >
>>> > > I would also like to add that we deliberately took a positive tone
>>> for this
>>> > > survey as it is far too easy to find (many) negatives for AI (and
>>> for good
>>> > > reason!), and we wanted to try to look at the benefits we could get
>>> from AI
>>> > > instead if applied properly and wit the best interest of Fedora
>>> driving the
>>> > > use of AI in parts of the projects ecosystem.
>>> > >
>>> > > This survey is just trying to understand the preferences and wants
>>> of the
>>> > > Fedora community when it comes to AI, and not a guarantee that the
>>> project
>>> > > will be introducing AI in all of the mentioned areas.
>>> >
>>> > I can't see how this helps understand the Fedora contributor's
>>> preferences
>>> > about the use of AI, when the survey is restricting the possible
>>> answers
>>> > to "yes", "definitely yes", "very much yes". I would question the
>>> validity
>>> > of any actions taken / priorities set in Fedora based on results of
>>> this
>>> > survey.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Indeed. This creates a skewed dataset because the questions you've
>>> asked essentially prevent a set of responses from being captured. The
>>> two choices people have are: pick the least worst option or just don't
>>> participate in the survey. Neither of which are good things.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Continuing with a small comment:
>>
>> this looks like one of those Human Resources surveys where they only want
>> to know if their performance is:
>> . good
>> . great
>> . outstanding
>>
>> And as we know, it's actually none of those
>>
>>
>> Luís
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