Linux Questionnaire

[Jason Clinton]

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Eser Saydam wrote:
| to draw conclusions from his research.  But to clear up any misconceptions,
| I use Microsoft OSs and applications for work because I have no choice in
| this matter, as many of us do.  I have been using Linux and various flavors
| of UNIX for over 4 years, so I hope you feel I have sufficient experience
| using non-MS platforms to draw some useful conclusions from your answers.

I appoligize for the prejudice. As you can imagine, we take all bulk email with
a grain of salt.

Since I have your attention however, I would like to point out that your
questionaire will not reveal anything substantial due to the flawed framing. You
only give respondents the ability to respond in a possitive or affirmative
manner and therefore your qualitative ananysis results will be affermatively
squewed. See this lecture outline for some good guidelines on doing qualitative
analysis:

http://www-pub.naz.edu:9000/~dapage/Fall02www/surv.html

Any good thesis using survey results to justify it's possition will require a
"Methodoly" section explaining how the survey was conducted and an Appendix
containing an actual copy of the survey. Be sure you do not squew your results
by only targeting Linux people, as well. Hope this helps!

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