Re: Important and Urgent



"purvi" <njoywithpurvi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,
Please read on:
We are doing a survey to collect information on middleware usage
and some features of the middleware. Through the survey data as one
source of information, we can do research on middleware, and software
engineering trend analysis and prediction.

Please take out some minutes to fill in this survey. Please this is
really important survey.

Suvey link:
http://swtech.njit.edu/middlewaresurvey/

As this group includes Students/Faculties as well as Professionals,
please fill up the Individual survey and other corresponding surveys.

I am sure you guys will take part and will help this research.
Give little time to make this survey successful.
Your efforts are appreciated.
Thank you all

Purvi


I had a go at this and gave up by the third screen...

The questions are stupid and pointless. Expecting people to quantify in
hours how long it takes to learn something complex, where learning is an
ongoing experience, and might extend over months or years is simply
unrealistic. (But the page accepts decimal points so let's get it right...
:-))

Non-quantified questions of the type: "How hard was this, on a scale of 1 to
5" are more "doable" but the quality of the data obtained is totally
subjective and not much use for serious research.

I would equate this survey with the kind of thing you might find in
Cosmopolitan, to see if you are sexually compatible with your camel...

I don't do those (I don't need a survey to tell me my camel loves me...), so
I won't be doing this.

It might be important and urgent to someone, but I would strongly suggest a
little less urgency and some more serious thought in formulating the
questions.

Overall, I thought the whole tenor of the survey reflected naivete, and I
would expect more from an institution of learning.

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


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