Yeah, this survey was pretty disappointing—I had to stop myself from making a negative comment after I took it (though someone else had). I am glad you realized it, too I guess. Even things like starting with a bunch of questions about the new lesswrong-inspired site, and the spacing between words were off, let alone the things you mention.
I am honestly a little sad that someone more competent in matters like these like gwern didn’t take over (as I always assumed will happen if yvain gave up on doing it), because half-hearted attempts like this probably hurt a lot more than help—e.g. someone coming back in 4 months and seeing how we’ve went down to only 300 (!) responders in the annual survey is going to assume LW is even more dead than it really is. This reasoning goes beyond the survey.
I did intend to take over the survey if Yvain stopped, although I didn’t tell him in the hopes he would keep doing it rather than turn it over immediately. I’m not sure I would take it over now: the results seem increasingly irrelevant as I’m not sure the people taking the survey overlap much anymore as with the original LW surveys in 2009.
Yeah, this survey was pretty disappointing—I had to stop myself from making a negative comment after I took it (though someone else had). I am glad you realized it, too I guess. Even things like starting with a bunch of questions about the new lesswrong-inspired site, and the spacing between words were off, let alone the things you mention.
I am honestly a little sad that someone more competent in matters like these like gwern didn’t take over (as I always assumed will happen if yvain gave up on doing it), because half-hearted attempts like this probably hurt a lot more than help—e.g. someone coming back in 4 months and seeing how we’ve went down to only 300 (!) responders in the annual survey is going to assume LW is even more dead than it really is. This reasoning goes beyond the survey.
I did intend to take over the survey if Yvain stopped, although I didn’t tell him in the hopes he would keep doing it rather than turn it over immediately. I’m not sure I would take it over now: the results seem increasingly irrelevant as I’m not sure the people taking the survey overlap much anymore as with the original LW surveys in 2009.
Note, last year’s survey was also run by /u/ingres