RE: [Bodington-developers] Questionnaire Functionality

[Brian P. C. <bm...@bm...>]

> One of the main points of knowing who hasn't filled in a Questionnaire is so
> that they can be targeted for badgering to go away and do so.  If you only
> know who hasn't filled in the Questionnaire after the closing date this
> destroys the logic of the functionality!!!

I was a student once and I spit on any help given to a university to 
badger students.  A student should have the right not to fill in a 
questionnaire and not to be sought out and badgered for doing so.  
You might even make it clear that an abstention is a tacit 
declaration of contentedness. The course owner can get a 
percentage figure any time but no names, no pack drills, and no 
badgers.

This fulfils the objective given: the progress is being monitored with 
no infringement of anonymity  Mass badgering remains an option.

Regards,

Brian.
> 
> If this is seen as important (which I think it is) I'd vote that results
> can't be seen until the cutoff, but that who has filled in can be seen at
> any time
> 
> Paul
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bod...@li...
> [mailto:bod...@li...] On Behalf Of
> Alexis O'Connor
> Sent: 03 March 2006 16:46
> To: bod...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] Questionnaire Functionality
> 
> Jon Maber wrote:
> > A difficulty is that if you use the functionality frequently enough 
> > either one or zero names will be dropped from the list compared to 
> > previous time. All changes to the results can then be attributed to that 
> > person.  The 'less than 50%' restriction protects the anonymity of the 
> > first 50% of users but not the last 50%.
> > 
> > The answer is (I think) to allow access to the tool at any time but when 
> > it's run the first thing to do is choose a date. The tool will list 
> > users who hadn't yet completed the questionnaire at midnight on that 
> > date. The date is chosen so that if the command was run at some unknown 
> > point in the past either the same list will be returned as was returned 
> > then or a list with at least N more names. The user will be told the 
> > date when the list is output and will be told the number (but not names) 
> > of people on the list who have now completed the questionnaire.
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> 
> Hmmm... prehaps my original post wasn't clear enough ;-).
> 
> I was also saying a cut-off date was required. Up until this date is 
> reached, the results can not be retrieved in any way, not via the 
> summary tool, nor CSV file, etc. As respondents submit a response, their 
> name drops off the non-respondent list. Once all the respondents have 
> replied or the deadline is reached (what ever comes first) the resource 
> owner can then get the results. As they have received the results all at 
>   once, they do not have a clear way or attributing an individual result 
> with an individual user. Anonymity has not been leaked over time as it 
> would be if the results *and* non-respondents list were both available 
> prior to everyone having responded or the deadline being reached. (The 
> deadline is required because there can be perfectly legitimate reasons 
> for not everyone having responded).
> 
> Alexis
> 
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