*phoebe ayers* phoebe.wiki at gmail.com writes: ++++++ I'm not sure there's any way to get a non-self-selected survey about anything on the projects due to anonymity concerns. ++++++
I'm a 17-year veteran of implementing professional quantitative survey research. Self-selection bias is a very complicated study, but there are some fairly accessible and intuitive techniques one may implement to create a thoughtful survey of a target population which minimizes self-selection bias concerns. This allows the stakeholders to focus on the challenge of deriving meaning from the response data rather than feeling nausea over the sampling methodology. I am willing to give, pro bono, 45 minutes of telephone consulting time to any Wikimedia Foundation staff member who is attached to this particular survey project, on the condition that they will be open and attentive to the possibility that a properly-designed and fairly-executed survey may not return results that foster their preconceived desires to railroad through a license migration (which, unfortunately, is my key takeaway from observing this discussion). -- Gregory Kohs Cell: 302.463.1354 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
