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
Fedora Operations Architect
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024, 10:03 AM Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 09:45, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 4:19 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. outstandingAnd as we know, it's actually none of thoseLuís
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