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Re: Emacs Survey 2022 - design
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Timothy |
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Re: Emacs Survey 2022 - design |
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Thu, 19 May 2022 23:51:41 +0800 |
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Hi Philip,
Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
> Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st> writes:
>> On that note, how about asking in terms of geographical regions? E.g.:
>>
>> Where do you live?
>> - Africa
>> - Asia/Pacific (including the Indian Subcontinent)
>> - Europe
>> - North America
>> - South America
>
> I believe this is better than nationality, though a little more details
> wouldn’t be bad. If you group the middle east with New Zealand you
> might as well not ask where people live at all. The question seems
> interesting to get a rough idea of how popular Emacs is in different
> parts of the world, the difference between two neighbouring countries
> seems negligible.
Nationalities is a bit finer that what I think we want, but similarly I find
continents a bit too coarse.
> In this context it might also be interesting to ask what kind of
> Hardware is being used and how they perceive performance to be like. I
> can imagine that more people in the western world will have access to
> newer and faster hardware, on which grounds they would argue for this or
> that feature to be enabled. The survey could help show if e.g. people
> in the global south are bound to older hardware that would suffer from
> computationally intensive features.
Not a bad idea! How about a question along these lines:
┌────
│ RadioSelect(:emacs_performance,
│ "How well does Emacs perform in your experience?",
│ ["Very well, it's snappy", "Good but not great",
│ "Alright", "Not well", "Poorly, it's slugish"])
└────
As well as say a question on how many years old the hardware is.
> Another semi-unrelated question might be to estimate the popularity of
> Emacs or other editors amongst other developers they know. I’d expect
> less interesting or consistent information to result from this, but it
> might also help draw a picture of what options people consider in what
> parts of the world.
Hmm, perhaps. I’m not sure here.
All the best,
Timothy
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- Re: Emacs Survey 2022 - design, Will Mengarini, 2022/05/17
- Re: Emacs Survey 2022 - design, Timothy, 2022/05/19
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