"Official" DIYbio community survey - part of Statistical Studies of Peer Production is on!

[Jarkko (kyb3R) Moilanen]

Hi,
 
First of all my apologies for delaying this survey for some time. Nevertheless, here it is.

We (P2P researchers) are inviting you to participate on a survey on individuals and communities doing DIYbio: http://surveys.peerproduction.net/ls/index.php?sid=88161
The survey contains 29 questions, and typically it takes less than 10 minutes to complete. The survey is intended to give insights about DIYbio communities, and we hope that this will help in motivating you to take the time to participate!

The survey is a part of initiative for open source research on peer production (supported by the Peer to Peer Foundation, more info at http://surveys.peerproduction.net/). All of the (anonymised, of course!) data will be openly available on the survey site.
The questions have been prepared by Jarkko Moilanen with the help of DIYbio community and the results with their analysis will be published during 2012.

For further information and questions (or if you want to help with the survey or with peer to peer research more generally), contact jarkko { at } peerproduction.net

Cheers,
Jarkko (IRC nick: kyyberi),
PhD Candidate (University of Tampere)
Maintainer
Statistical Studies of Peer Production
http://surveys.peerproduction.net

[Patrik D'haeseleer]

Some feedback for next time:

The Likert scale for the "How often do you use below mentioned communication methods" questions seems a bit screwy. For example, you don't have an option matching anything less frequent than once a month, which is especially relevant for the "Conferences and other bigger (international) events" part of the question. Those of us who actually do attend these events probably don't attend more DIYbio related ones than 2-3 a year.

Your software to save incomplete surveys has a bug! It broke because my name contains an apostrophe, so I couldn't get it to reload my almost-finished survey.

[Nathan McCorkle]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <pat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some feedback for next time:
>
> The Likert scale for the "How often do you use below mentioned communication
> methods" questions seems a bit screwy. For example, you don't have an option
> matching anything less frequent than once a month, which is especially
> relevant for the "Conferences and other bigger (international) events" part
> of the question. Those of us who actually do attend these events probably
> don't attend more DIYbio related ones than 2-3 a year.

I also felt the same way on that question, and would have answered 2-3
per year or maybe 3-5 per year.

--
Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics

[kyb3R]

The survey did not gain enough interest, only 17 respondents (7 full, 10 partial). It does not make any sense to analyze this few answers. Perhaps someone in the future can make the survey better and more interesting to the community. Nevertheless, thanks for your input! 

/Jarkko

[Nathan McCorkle]

Is it still open for taking? Maybe we could try getting the link posted more places online to generate data.

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[Jarkko Moilanen]

Hi,

2012/10/20 Nathan McCorkle <nmz...@gmail.com>:

> Is it still open for taking? Maybe we could try getting the link posted more
> places online to generate data.
>

No, it's not open, but I just opened it again. It's now open until
31st this month at
http://surveys.peerproduction.net/ls/index.php?sid=88161&lang=en

If you have good suggestions where to post message about it, please
let me know or feel free to post it your self :)

Cheers,
/Jarkko

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[Jarkko Moilanen]

Hi,

2012/10/23 Jarkko Moilanen <jarkko....@meegonetwork.fi>:

> Hi,
>
> 2012/10/20 Nathan McCorkle <nmz...@gmail.com>:
>> Is it still open for taking? Maybe we could try getting the link posted more
>> places online to generate data.
>>
>
> No, it's not open, but I just opened it again. It's now open until
> 31st this month at
> http://surveys.peerproduction.net/ls/index.php?sid=88161&lang=en
>
> If you have good suggestions where to post message about it, please
> let me know or feel free to post it your self :)

Here's link to raw CSV format data from the survey. N was still low,
but reached 28 (11 full, 17 partial)

http://surveys.peerproduction.net/open-data/longitudinal-survey-data/#diybio-communities-surveys


/Jarkko