Two biases every survey has. The choices it doesn't allow and questions
it doesn't ask are one bias and the choices any survey allows and
questions any survey asks are the second bias. That's why I avoid
surveys whenever possible. College-level courses on survey design exist
and I think many survey writers never took those courses or cut the
classes.
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017, Tom Fowle wrote:
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 20:54:47
From: Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
<speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Please take this screen reader survey.
Greg,
My wife took a look and straightened me out
What is there, after "other" is the bottom of a "legend" box made of
underlines
There is a top to these boxes above the "no response" or what ever is at the
top of choices for each question.
and I think pipe signs along the left and right edges of these boxes.
I'm so used to seeing underlines as edit boxes, and wasn't familiar with the
legend box that I jumpped to an incorrect conclusion.
But I think you'll aggree that not allowing input of "other" choices in many
questions
in this survey biases it against the linux choice. It means they have to
pay attention to the comments section.
Since similar problems with previous years surveys havn't resulted in
changes, I'm not convinced they are prepared to care.
Tom Fowle
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 09:48:35PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
Tom, how do you know there's an edit field after other? I just checked
to be sure without filling out or submitting the survey for a second
time using firefox, and I don't see any edit fields besides the
comment field. Maybe someone else has something to add here?
Greg
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 09:11:08PM -0700, Tom Fowle wrote:
> Greg,
> In questions where there is no correct answer and an "other" selection,
> there is a text box of line chars after the word "other"
> I could find no way to get the cursor into these text boxes, thus was not
> able to put in speakup linux etc.
> Is there a lynx trick about that I don't know? most likely!
>
> Thanks
> Tom Fowle
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