From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to poll the users Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:44:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k12bdgx7.fsf@yahoo.com> <87a736wyed.fsf@yahoo.com> <2F7AD0CB-FF83-4244-BD77-7E0460A77762@icloud.com> <87wo6a7abj.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o8rlbnic.fsf@yahoo.com> <45098d13-2770-4a19-6f82-b22276eb51c8@yandex.ru> <877dy91mb0.fsf@yahoo.com> <0ce06d95-0593-bc55-983f-6b6601503a1a@yandex.ru> <38f07534-f9db-64eb-5256-e73bcebafef4@yandex.ru> <8e4a5b46-f9a6-400e-f573-f73b419e229f@yandex.ru> <18a14ae4-66da-496b-8929-355e8833ecb2@default> <1eb74697-c7ce-47fc-886d-96a1d2ca01d1@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="38403"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: , pcr910303@icloud.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, luangruo@yahoo.com, seb@k-7.ch, dgutov@yandex.ru To: drew.adams@oracle.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 28 04:46:38 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jTGGa-0009rA-6h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 04:46:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39870 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTGGZ-0005DA-7V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:46:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43164) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTGEJ-00014h-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:44:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49598) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTGEH-0001IW-SK; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:44:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jTGEH-0005jj-0u; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:44:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:22:30 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247981 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I've noticed over the years that respondents tend to give simple (thus not very useful) answers and that it is necessary to urge them to explain more. Just now it struck me that the word "poll" might suggest to respondents that the answer requested is simply "How much do you like or dislike this", with 5 or 7 possible answers from "Hate it" to "Love it." Does this seem likely? Should we call it something else? We could describe it as a "study" or "investigation" instead of a "poll". -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)