Online Surveys Re: Survey about SPARQL clients

Hi all,

this is not specific to Evelina's request (and I wish her every success),  
but about surveys posted to groups like this.

I receive a lot of requests like this, to fill in some survey form (often  
a google doc) that has no explanation of how the results will be used,  
whether there is a privacy policy for the information gathered and indeed  
who is gathering what information, whether any guidelines on ethical  
research practices have been followed or review has been done, etc.

Given that this community in particular has in two and a bit decades  
enabled a massive surveillance economy whose abuses and undesired impacts  
have brought the issues this raises to the level of ordinary conversation  
topic, I think it would make sense if we asked for those things as a  
matter of course.

This means both agreeing what is reasonable, and setting expectations for  
people who are starting some investigation so they can find out in advance  
what the community expects of them. Absent that it's unreasonable to  
criticise someone for following a common pattern.

I think it would be good to have a sense of what we think is expected, if  
anything. (It might also help people understand that not providing  
anything like this will produce a particular skew on their results because  
certain groups of people will not answer by default - although without a  
discussion we're unlikely to be able to give much idea what that will be).

cheers

Chaals

On Sat, 28 May 2022 05:47:54 +1000, Evelina Premyanova  
<evelina.premyanova99@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I’m currently doing my undergraduate degree. I’m looking to interview  
> SPARQL experts as part of my individual project and I wondered if you’d  
> be interested in being involved.
>
> I’m excited to hear about your experiences with SPARQL clients. I will  
> use the findings from this survey to understand the potential issues  
> that come with this topic and come up with a potential  solution. I will  
> report this process and my findings as part of my individual project.
>
> There are no right answers – I am just wanting to learn about your  
> experience and opinions.
>
> Here is the link to the survey:
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecCqtMb-07LMfLgR61lwsRK6WO-6SmFTDtd0ZkvA5cP9rmkA/viewform?usp=sf_link
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Best regards,
> Evelina
>


-- 
Charles "chaals" Nevile
ConsenSys Lead Standards Architect

Received on Sunday, 29 May 2022 02:51:28 UTC