Re: [RCom-l] Recruiting subjects via CentralNotice: feedback needed

Hi all, I just took the survey. Here are my observations: Paypal account: why ask before the survey is completed? And why make entering an email address compulsory if there is an option to donate the money to the WMF, under which there would be no need for an email address (other than to control for duplicate entries, perhaps). There is ambiguity in questions of the "did you have an idea" kind about other participants' behaviour: Although it sounded more like "did you have some imagination as to the probability distribution of play behaviour amongst other players", I took it to mean "did you *know* how the others played?". In my view, either question only makes sense as a way to estimate how carefully one has read the instructions (in which the correct answer was given, although only roughly for the first). I was surprised (and disappointed) that the game theoretical questions ended so quickly after all the effort that went into explaining (and understanding) the rules. Also, such decision-making scenarios tend to be different between single-play and repeated-play conditions, and in the latter case, depending upon whether the players (or their behaviour) change or not, and whether this is known to the others. The demographic part is fairly standard, though some questions (e.g. on country of citizenship, birth, birth of mother, birth of father) seem a bit far-fetched for an analysis of this kind (and it's annoying to enter if all four are the same). So here we have indeed the case of "repeated surveys with similar questions", as WereSpielChequers had put it. The questions right after the demographic part are probably the most relevant ones from an RCom perspective, and they are posed mostly such that their analysis promises interesting results. There was one that I found a bit odd, but can't remember any details now. The question on monthly gross income could do with a currency converter (not everyone, even on enwiki, thinks in USD). Typo: * Where you in a calm environment when you answered the questions? The technical implementation is excellent, and it took me exactly the 25min that had been advertised. Daniel On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Fuster, Mayo <Mayo.Fuster(a)eui.eu> wrote: _______________________________________________ RCom-l mailing list RCom-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/rcom-l