[Theforum] confidentiality of survey results

[Daniel J. Cody]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, rudy wrote:
> 
> that should be "poring"
> 
> i trust that's just your usual laxity in spelling, dan, and not a freudian
> slip (picture bombay gin spilled all over your monitor...)

well its friday afternoon, 10 minutes from quiting time and i'm going to
'get my groove on' as the kids say, tonite. so it may have been a freudian
slip. :)
 
> will the raw data be available to anyone other than yourself?  the reason i
> ask is that we promised two things --
[snip] 
> the second part suggests that discussing it on theforum (which has an open
> archive) might compromise the confidentiality

we will discuss things here, but with anonimity protected..

> one way to ensure confidentiality is to have only dan keep the raw data,
> and distribute and discuss only totals/averages/counts and anonymous
> comments on theforum

well, 169 people want to be contacted. thats an 'assload' of work for just
me :)

i'd appreciate maybe 2 or 3 other people who would see the raw data so we
can split the work of responding to people up.

thoughts?

.djc.