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Brian "Sully" Sullivan commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
I think that regardless of the sample, or even the quantitative results, the comments in that spreadsheet should be carefully studied. There is a lot of very valuable input and suggestions, as well as very lucid reasons for frustration that any open…
Amy Stephen commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
hehe! That's true, Klas, and the trick as a community is to learn to support *people* and help everyone find an area to contribute where they can utilize their gifts. I definitely agree.
Klas commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
People can do great things in one area and be detrimental in others. Crucial thing is to know what you are capable of and what is off your limits. Imagine me taking a diplomatic job if you need an example :))
Amy Stephen commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
I uploaded a Stress Reduction Kit if the smoking grass idea doesn't do the trick. ;-)
Amy Stephen commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
I agree, Mike, Elin has contributed a great deal to this project and I am grateful for her work. We don't close threads, though, so, let's allow people to continue to comment. Thanks!
Mike Hamanaka commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
I was really not intending to bash any particular person, I think Elin is an outstanding contributor in many ways, as are several other people. I was only being critical of the way the numbers were being represented... since they are fixed now, I…
Amy Stephen commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
The graphs were changed. Good job, Mike, for raising the concern. Good job, OSM, for responding to the concern. That's cooperation.
Jeremy Wilken commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
I think the biggest problem was the survey was not very clear, and it ran for a couple days. I remember when the results came out that I had only heard about it the day before, and I pay attention.
I understand the need for quantitative results…
HarryB commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
You can fool please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool please all of the people all of the time. (original by A. Lincoln)
Klas commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
You have to read the fine print to find out what they truly represent and that's why those graphs are misleading - 99% of people will just look at the pictures.
Amy Stephen commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
I believe I read Elin state this is not a scientific survey. Yes, given her professional and Doctorate degree, she is obviously well trained at research. Advantage to Joomla! to have her involvement. We would be very silly to assume motive for how a…
Klas commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
A sociologist by profession* Elin should know that statistically this kind of online research is totally invalid (most important: non-random sample, also size of a sample). It can only be used for some kind of qualitative analysis (why, how..) or as…
Amy Stephen commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
Good point.
Mike Hamanaka commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
Yes Amy, this is what I concluded from the resulting information when I looked at it in the middle of the day at first glance. But since I have been at home this evening, I wanted to really read through the numbers and I think that they should be…
Peter Russell commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
Agree with Mitch on this. Scewed data not representative of the community, doesn't prove anything — the opposite in fact it fuels concern because of "lies, damned lies and statistics".
Amy Stephen commented on Mike Hamanaka's blog post 'Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.'
Understood. I saw the scale, too. I would not read anything into that - except that the graph looks better to the graph maker that way. I think it's great OSM asked, they sure didn't *have* too - and they shared all of the data, including…
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Evaluating Paid dev, graphs are skewed.
First, I need to start by saying, I like the idea of paid developers.
I agree that 70 or so submitters is really not sufficient. Would probably have been better to collect for at least twice as long, hoping to at least have a full 100 opinion givers.
I like the graphs that are shown, but 1 issue is causing two problems in my opinion.
The significance of the negative response results at first glance is deceiving.
I'm not sure this is on purpose, or by… Continue
I agree that 70 or so submitters is really not sufficient. Would probably have been better to collect for at least twice as long, hoping to at least have a full 100 opinion givers.
I like the graphs that are shown, but 1 issue is causing two problems in my opinion.
The significance of the negative response results at first glance is deceiving.
I'm not sure this is on purpose, or by… Continue
Posted on February 1, 2010 at 10:36pm — 20 Comments
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- At 3:12pm on December 31, 2009,
Mike Hamanaka said…
- Hi Amy! :P
All together as a whole, but on Ning?
Anyways, cool, I'm so happy to be part of the Unofficial.
Happy New Year
- At 9:08am on December 31, 2009,
Amy Stephen said…
- Hi Mike! :)
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