Re: [opensuse] openSUSE hard disk configuration survey

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[opensuse] openSUSE hard disk configuration survey
\ Martin Schmidkunz (5 May 2008)
. \ Felix Miata (5 May 2008)
. \ Carlos E. R. (5 May 2008)
. \ Bob Williams (6 May 2008)
. \ Brian K. White (6 May 2008)
. . \ Ken Schneider (6 May 2008)

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Subject:	Re: [opensuse] openSUSE hard disk configuration survey
Group:	Suse-linux-e
From:	Ken Schneider
Date:	6 May 2008

Brian K. White pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
>
>> On 2008/05/05 10:33 (GMT+0200) Martin Schmidkunz apparently typed:
>>
>>> We are currently conducting a survey about hard disk configuration.
>>> It is available via
>>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lnZcsBO6PqJ9hjNW01jiyQ_3d_3d
>>> or
>>> http://en.opensuse.org/UX
>>> The survey will be online until 28th May 2008 and the results will be
>>> published on openSUSE.org as soon as possible
>>> Answering the questions will take less than five minutes.
>> The checkbox is missing for "other", so any entry in the input box is
>> rejected if nothing else is checked. The only tool I use is an "other".
>
> Similarly I was forced to decide if displaying the fibre channel port name was unimportant or important to me, neither of which is an acceptible way to say "not applicable". I don't want to say unimportant, because if I happened to have any fibre channel it might be important. And what's so special about a fibre channel port vs a scsi BUS/ID/LUN or an sata port number? And where was SAS anywhere in the survey? And "Used By" on the info display page probably means "Mount Point" but by rights I should put "I don't know what this means, and write-in mount point, and thus my input gets utterly wasted because I didn't select Used By, which probably would have ended up counting my input towards the feature I do value, and the "Other"'s all probably get ignored unless a collossal number people actually bother to write in the same thing.
>
> I really hate answering anything at all on a questionair when the option for answering correctly isn't provided.
> I hate that the results of such surveys get used as if they were meaningful too.
>
> "Look, 417 people said they used SATA vs 0 said they were using NFS or AoE or SAS or MTD or ... , and no one seems to care about the mount point much ..."
>
> Or like you, being forced to claim you used IDE, just to get the page to work at all just so you could write in your Other value also, so IDE gets an artificially inflated value.
>
> and the volume group page, isn't that missing at least 5 or 6 things AND n/a AND Other?
>
> Grr... It's like asking a peacful, straight, single male if he beats his wife or his boyfriend.
>

Exactly, and being forced to pick one or the other when neither are correct.

I think the person who drew up this survey needs to totally redo and
re-think the questions and flow of the questions.

--
Ken Schneider
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