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How to Run Surveys: A Guide to Creating Your Own Identifying Variation and Revealing the Invisible
Surveys are an essential approach for eliciting otherwise invisible factors such as perceptions, knowledge and beliefs, attitudes, and reasoning. These factors are critical determinants of social, economic, and political outcomes. Surveys are not merely a research tool. They are also not only a way of collecting data. Instead, they involve creating the process that will generate the data. This allows the researcher to create their own identifying and controlled variation. Thanks to the rise of mobile technologies and platforms, surveys offer valuable opportunities either to study broadly representative samples or to focus on specific groups. This article offers guidance on the complete survey process, from the design of the questions and experiments to the recruitment of respondents and the collection of data to the analysis of survey responses. It covers issues related to the sampling process, selection and attrition, attention and carelessness, survey question design and measurement, response biases, and survey experiments.

The thing it turns out lots of us want
Last month I posted a questionnaire. Here’s what you said

Effective Altruism Summit 2013
Read the Docs 2016 Stats
Congrats, you made it through 2016! Read the Docs has been rolling along, and we’ve had another interesting year as well. For a quick summary: Our level of contributions and commits has gone down a good bit this year., Our traffic and user growth has been quite steady, which is particularly impre...

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026
More than 30K technologists from 169 countries have shared their thoughts with us, and now it’s time to share everything we’ve learned with you. So let’s dive into this year’s Annual Developer Survey.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023
In May 2023 over 90,000 developers responded to our annual survey about how they learn and level up, which tools they're using, and which ones they want.

CSU AI Survey Report | CSU
The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Bad for Democracy
A new form of online survey uses crowdsourcing and data visualization to reveal the hidden nuances in partisan debates.

Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image 📝 #WSocial state of the network - Friday July 10th 📣 for those who are curious about it, considering the enthusiastic endorsement by prestigious European institutions #OpenData allows me to crunch numbers. On day 23 since its beta launch in Brussels, W Social has 11291 accounts: - 469 new users since yesterday - 899 users have published one or more posts - 72 new users posting since yesterday - 92% have never* published a single post *may be related to #WIdentity and its 13-step process
Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data Leverage
Podcast Episode · The Blockchain Socialist · March 4 · 1h 3m
Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
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Peak Web Has Passed | datagubbe.se
One million
What got our start-up to one million users against all odds. Hint: it was curation for the masses.

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Independent, data-driven analysis of politics, public opinion polls, and elections. From author, journalist, and pollster G. Elliott Morris. Click to read Strength In Numbers, by G. Elliott Morris, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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