Update question: some user data

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Sun Mar 7 19:04:03 UTC 2010


On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 11:06 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
>
> > It very well might.  But this poll is poorly worded and only
>
> That's the first time you've suggested it's poorly worded; in what way,
> might I ask?
>

Adventurous and Conservative are both subjective.  I bet if you asked
"Would you prefer Fedora have fewer updates or more updates" you'd have a
completely different result on your hands.  It's also more objective.
Even asking changing adventurous to "newer and less stable" to "slower and
more stable" would probably change the results a bit.  There's quite a
science to this stuff, it's not to be taken lightly.

If we're going to put a serious poll together to ask our users[1] It'd
need to ask several questions in order for us to put data together to try
to make opinions about what the data means.  It's quite possible people
generally want the latest software, but REALLY want a stable desktop and
REALLY want fewer updates every day.  They may also want just the opposite
or some combination in the middle.

	-Mike

[1]  I'm actually in favor of polling but I'd prefer it to be scientific.


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