Users are invited to participate in a study of Everything2 and Perlmonks being conducted by the University of Michigan's School of Information.

The study is being conducted primarily to complete a course requirement, with possible presentation at conferences and publishing in academic journals. The creators of this site will also use the data in continued efforts to improve Everything2 and Perlmonks. Your participation would be deeply appreciated.

Cliff Lampe <cacl@umich.edu> Doctoral Student, UM.

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RE: University of Michigan Survey
by Blue (Hermit) on Nov 14, 2000 at 01:44 UTC
    The type of questions were interesting, especially after the 'fact finding' ones. I won't say more so as not to queer any results.

    One question - will these results be available after the survey is done? I would be interested in what others said on some of the later questions. It would be educating.

    =Blue
    ...you might be eaten by a grue...

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RE: University of Michigan Survey
by amelinda (Friar) on Nov 14, 2000 at 22:47 UTC
    I hope it won't terribly skew the data that I responded for both my E2 and PM experiences, so they may generate weird parsing errors (unless this will be human-parsed). I think it'd be interesting to see the amount of overlap between E2 and PM folks, especially those who aren't Everydevelites.

    I too would love to see some of the results.

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      I did not even see anything that would allow them to differentiate a PM user and a E2 user, except perhaps the "level." If I were He Who Codes (hint hint) I would advertise this node (and this survey) a bit more - I almost overlooked it amidst all the traffic on the site.

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        And "level" won't count if you use integers. I believe I put "E2: 5th; PM: 4th" for my level (and only another 67 to go before I'm 5th here too!), and used those markers to indicate my answers to all the fill-in questions. I could, I suppose, have simply submitted two separate surveys, but, as I said, I am sort of interested in those people who have made the crossing from one to the other. A better approach might have been to have two boxes for each question, one for E2 answer, one for PM answer.
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(jcwren) RE: University of Michigan Survey
by jcwren (Prior) on Nov 14, 2000 at 00:36 UTC
    Now can we have a poll about the poll? <G>

    --Chris

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