User talk:GamerPro64/ACE2015 exit poll

suggested revision to question about why&how

Suggest changing this extended-portion question:

• Q#8. Why did you vote in the 2015 ArbCom elections? In particular, how did you learn about the election, and what motivated you to participate this year?

• Your Answer:
• Your Comments:

To this:

• Q#8. Why did you vote in the 2015 ArbCom elections? In particular, how did you learn about the election, how did you learn about the candidates, and what motivated you to participate this year? Please list all reasons that apply, did you...

^A: ...see an announcement on your own talkpage

^B: ...see an on-wiki talkpage discussion (not counting your own talkpage)

^C: ...see an announcement on your own watchlist

^D: ...see an on-wiki noticeboard discussion

^E: ...see any off-wiki discussion (including IRC/chat, email/lists, facebook/twitter/blogs/reddit/youtube/similar, WP:BADSITES, phone/radio/television/newspapers/magazines/governmental/academia)

^F: ...follow ArbCom cases or enforcement before 2015

^G: ...follow ArbCom cases or enforcement during 2015

^H: ...personally comment in ArbCom case-pages before 2015

^I: ...personally comment in ArbCom case-pages during 2015

^J: ...pay attention to arbcom elections before 2015

^K: ...actually vote in arbcom elections before 2015

^L: ...pay attention to candidate statements

^M: ...pay attention to candidate question-pages

^N: ...pay attention to candidate contributions-history in their first year as a wikipedian

^O: ...pay attention to candidate contributions-history in the past couple of years leading up to the election

^P: ...pay attention to candidate contributions-history during the election-process

^Q: ...pay attention to voter-guides

^R: ...have personal interactions with at least one candidate before the election

^S: ...have personal interactions with at least five candidates before the election

^T: ...have personal interactions with at least ten candidates before the election

^U: ...have any other why/how/motivation rationale for your vote this year (please specify in your comments)

• Your List-Of-Letters-That-Apply Answer:
• Your Comments:

Ping Opabinia_regalis, is this close to what you were hoping to learn? Can any of these be cut? Is anything not asked, which ought be? 75.108.94.227 (talk) 09:54, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

See, I told you my brain was fried; I'd overlooked Q8 earlier. I don't envy you all the task of parsing and compiling free-text responses going up to "U", but if you think you will get good results with this level of granularity, that would be very interesting. Good luck! Opabinia regalis (talk) 23:47, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Zombies love fried brains, so no worries.  ;-)     Yes, the question of "will we get good results" is weighing heavily on my mind. The more terse we make the questionnaire, the more likely people will respond... the more formalized and parameterized we make it, the more likely people will respond in a parse-able fashion! See User_talk:75.108.94.227/arb'15_tiny and User_talk:75.108.94.227/arb'15_teensy_tiny, for an alternative approach to these types of quesstions. Best, 75.108.94.227 (talk) 15:56, 8 December 2015 (UTC)