Caution: This is not just a survey. It is also a solicitation to create a public online profile.
In the future, please consider separating surveys from solicitations; or disclosing up front that you are not just conducting a survey.
When I got to the part of this that started asking for personally identifying information to create a public online profile, it felt to me like something sneaky was going on: that my willingness to help with a survey was being misused as an entering-wedge to push me to do something I wouldn’t have chosen to do.
I considered — for a moment — putting bogus data in as a tit-for-tat defection in retribution for the dishonesty. I didn’t do so, because the problem isn’t with the survey aspect; it’s with the not saying up front what you are up to aspect. Posting this comment seemed more effective to discourage that than sticking a shoe in your data.
I added a paragraph to above saying: “We’re also using this as a way to build up the online EA community, such as featuring people on a global map of EAs and with a list of EA Profiles. This way more people can learn about the EA community. We will ask you in the survey if you would like to join us, but you do not have to opt-in and you will be opted-out by default.”
Caution: This is not just a survey. It is also a solicitation to create a public online profile.
In the future, please consider separating surveys from solicitations; or disclosing up front that you are not just conducting a survey.
When I got to the part of this that started asking for personally identifying information to create a public online profile, it felt to me like something sneaky was going on: that my willingness to help with a survey was being misused as an entering-wedge to push me to do something I wouldn’t have chosen to do.
I considered — for a moment — putting bogus data in as a tit-for-tat defection in retribution for the dishonesty. I didn’t do so, because the problem isn’t with the survey aspect; it’s with the not saying up front what you are up to aspect. Posting this comment seemed more effective to discourage that than sticking a shoe in your data.
Thanks for the feedback.
I added a paragraph to above saying: “We’re also using this as a way to build up the online EA community, such as featuring people on a global map of EAs and with a list of EA Profiles. This way more people can learn about the EA community. We will ask you in the survey if you would like to join us, but you do not have to opt-in and you will be opted-out by default.”
Thank you.