[Chapter-delegates] isoc survey (Google Docs)

Thu Jul 3 21:53:07 PDT 2008

Hello Mike,

comments at #

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Mike Todd <miketodd at miketodd.com> wrote:

>  Shiva,
>
> I have read the messages from both you and Veni regarding the survey.  I
> think I should go ahead and publish the survey based on Veni's request and
> your suggestions for improvements in the "survey questions".
>

My suggestion is not any way related to the content of the questions. I had
not sought to alter the points of the survey All that I have done is make
each question in harmony with the required response. It is not a survey with
multiple classes of responses, such as very important to very unimportant,
very true to totally untrue, i fully agree to I totally disagree, must
happen to should not happen.

In the initial questionnaire there were questions in a certain format ( for
e.g questions as statements ) or which the logical response could only be
ranging from I fully agree to I totally disagree It did not quite fit into
the very important to very unimportant ranking so it was bound to confuse
the respondent and ultimately would produce either a poor response or
misleading results. So I thought of two options, either make each question
with its own response set that fitted the question individually, or fit all
questions to the very important to very unimportant response. Beyond that I
did not propose any new points nor did I seek to alter the questions.

> I know that you implemented your recommended changes for the survey
> questions in a Google Docs spreadsheet, which is wonderful.  However, I also
> have some "recommended changes" and see a need for some basic definitions or
> use of more simplistic language for the survey questions and also have some
> additional concerns.
>

#The idea of sending an editable document is just that.  All I had done is
provide a format to work on.  In the first few minutes I 'reframed' the same
questions and posted it as in-line body text in the thread, and then I
thought that it would help if I formatted the spreadsheet that I worked on a
little, and upload it. So I did that.

>
> First, and this is just an example, your version of the questions has an
> item that states "Make it difficult for Terrorists and Extreme Groups to use
> the Internet".  While I can see the direction of your thinking, I am
> concerned that there may be many different interpretations and opinions
> about "who is a terrorist" and "what is an extreme group" and other things
> like "what is pornography" and more amorphous things like what is the line
> between nurturing, loving and supporting children and taking advantage of
> them and crossing the line into abuse.  These are all areas that, depending
> on the mental position of the person taking the survey, may provide very
> different or even unreliable or incomparable results.
>

# I am not getting into all that in this survey task.. There was a question
(or a statement) "enabling terrorist groups to do bad things" - it did not
quite fit in, so had to be rephrased in some manner. That is what I had
done.

>
> I am also concerned about how the spreadsheet may be used by different
> people completing the survey.  I was thinking that some might put and "x" in
> each cell that indicates selection.  Alternatively, someone else might use a
> numbering scheme to indicate the relative strength of their feelings about
> each statement.  I don't think this alternative provides a more easily
> understood survey tool.
>

#It would indeed be a very bad idea if I had suggested that a spreadsheet is
used inplace of a very conveninet tool such as survey monkey. The  spread
sheet was to edit the points, just that.

>
> I'll work on the version I shared with Veni over our Holiday Weekend...
>

#And I will work on my style of communication.  It turns out that something
always goes wrong and takes me by surprise.

>
> Mike Todd
> President, Mike Todd Associates - www.MikeTodd.com
> Supporting the Digital Coast
>
> President, Internet Society Los Angeles Chapter - www.ISOC-LA.org
>   mtodd at isoc-la.org
>
> Founder, Digital Divide Task Force, www.ddtf.org (undergoing updates)
>   miketodd at ddtf.org
>
> Western Research Application Center, Viterbi School of Engineering,
> University of Southern California
>
> Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Law
> Pepperdine University School of Law
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>  *From:* Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com>
> *To:* chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 03, 2008 3:36 PM
> *Subject:* [Chapter-delegates] isoc survey (Google Docs)
>
> I've shared a document with you called "isoc survey":
>
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pIcVVEbcUHiD8A7OntJCtZQ&inv=chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org&t=8372821704695779048&guest
>
> It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at Google Docs. To open this
> document, just click the link above.
>
> Hello Mike,
>
> I have uploaded it as a google spreadsheet for convenience. If
> required please make use of this document.
>
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