I like the framework through which you’re approaching this (i.e. managing complexity)
Something I notice that I wish I had was access to my answers to past year’s surveys, to track how my answers have evolved over time. The effort for facilitating that is probably nontrivial, but something you could do to start enabling backwards compatibility for that is including some kind of identifying tag that you’re likely to remember in the future but is untraceable (or, leaves it to individuals to decide how to tradeoff “I will easily remember this next year” vs “this can’t be used to identify me”
Questions that might be good are “CFAR followup” type questions, like “Have you tried a new thing in the past week/month? When’s the last time you made a major career change on purpose?”
Trivial suggestion- include in the survey a question that goes something like “roll a die ten times, and write the results in order here. If you would like to be able to identify yourself on this survey later, make a copy of those results and look for them in the dataset when it is released. If you want to make sure nobody can possibly identify you on this survey, leave this question blank.”
If you want to make it something people might remember without writing it down, ask them to generate a couple of words from the diceware list.
Previous surveys have included this, I just overlooked it.
The effort for facilitating that is probably nontrivial
No the effort to facilitate at least the weak form you’re talking about is fairly trivial. In terms of looking at your personal results it might be possible to coax the software into sending you a copy of your answers, if I remember correctly the software used last time supports this but I turned it off as an extraneous feature.
I like the framework through which you’re approaching this (i.e. managing complexity)
Something I notice that I wish I had was access to my answers to past year’s surveys, to track how my answers have evolved over time. The effort for facilitating that is probably nontrivial, but something you could do to start enabling backwards compatibility for that is including some kind of identifying tag that you’re likely to remember in the future but is untraceable (or, leaves it to individuals to decide how to tradeoff “I will easily remember this next year” vs “this can’t be used to identify me”
Questions that might be good are “CFAR followup” type questions, like “Have you tried a new thing in the past week/month? When’s the last time you made a major career change on purpose?”
Trivial suggestion- include in the survey a question that goes something like “roll a die ten times, and write the results in order here. If you would like to be able to identify yourself on this survey later, make a copy of those results and look for them in the dataset when it is released. If you want to make sure nobody can possibly identify you on this survey, leave this question blank.”
If you want to make it something people might remember without writing it down, ask them to generate a couple of words from the diceware list.
Previous surveys have included this, I just overlooked it.
No the effort to facilitate at least the weak form you’re talking about is fairly trivial. In terms of looking at your personal results it might be possible to coax the software into sending you a copy of your answers, if I remember correctly the software used last time supports this but I turned it off as an extraneous feature.