For clarity - We'll review aggregated data by question. So we will only see there is one person over 65, but won't associate any other data point with that.
On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 at 09:05, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > So will we be reviewing the data as anonymous entries or anonymous > aggregates? If I can see that Apache has only one over-65 person, that > doesn't tell me anything other than the single over-65 person filled > out the survey. However, if I can see each entry with an anonymous id > instead of their name, then yes, that is fairly easy to reverse back > to names. > > On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 22:26, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: > > > > On 12/5/2019 6:17 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > > On 12/5/2019 3:58 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > > > ... > > >> Not sure if this is the right venue. Feel free to redirect me. > > >> > > >> Working my way through the survey, I'm finding that - for me at least > - > > >> it would be trivial to de-anonymise my response. It isn't going to > > >> affect my answers but I wonder if it will affect the responses of > others. > > >> > > >> I'm not sure what could be done about this. We need the demographic > data > > >> but that combined with out relatively small population and relatively > > >> detailed data available about each committer's activities makes > > >> de-anonymisation easier. > > >> > > >> I think this is something to file under "things to take into > > >> consideration for the next survey" but I wanted to raise it while it > was > > >> fresh in my mind. > > > > > > I have the same concern. One thing that can be done even now is to > > > establish a minimum size of group for which statistics will be broken > > > out for publication. > > > > In a board@ thread, which I am staying away from, Dave Fisher remarked: > > > > > Elsewhere someone suggested that answers may be enough to impute who > > > filled in that set of answers. I would say those are well known board > > > members. The survey is out. Let’s analyze results in a couple > > > months. > > Although inferring identity from one or two answers is probably limited > > to a few board members, combinations can be very powerful. My survey > > answers show that I am over-65, female, PhD, PMC and ASF member, UK > > origin, US resident, and sometimes attend face-to-face meetings but not > > often. That is probably not a very large demographic. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org > > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org > >
