LinkyPost - I need data

[guppiecat]

I'm working on a paper and my business contacts didn't give me enough data. If you work with computers as part of your job, can you please fill out this survey?

Thanks.

Comments

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

I don't know about anyone else, but the questions at the end elicited guesses from me (I have a hard time remembering what happened last week, let alone two+ years ago)...

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Most of these questions were meaningless to me (I filled it out as Producer of Shockwave Radio Theater). Almost all of them should have had a "Not Applicable" option. And it assumes you're running a PC. I very much question whether these results will provide a valid snapshot of security needs and annoyances felt in the Real World (tm).

[alicebentley]

I filled it out, but the questions seemed skewed to a different set of assumptions than my situation represents.

I guess that's better than writing the questions so that you only get the answers you wanted anyway, which is what I see most often in surveys.

[freetrav.livejournal.com]

I'm in an odd situation with respect to what *I* can do vs. what the average user in my organization can do - I'm one of the IT people that supports the rest of the organization. Should I be answering based on my own elevated level of privilege on the organization's computing facilities, or based on the (lack-of-)privilege level that the average user within my organization experiences?

[buttonlass.livejournal.com]

Would you like a boost to my friends either here or on Facebook? I know several computer/IT people you aren't friends with. Should I just link to the same url you gave us if I do?

[itskoi.livejournal.com]

I filled it out, basing most answers on the period where I worked in-house as a reporter for a newspaper, in a chain that has probably a million employees world wide.

It was a Mac environment, so I wasn't as worried about viruses but they did have software that slowed things down, prevented downloads I actually needed, system crashes, and lost time. Not necessarily whole days, but I averaged the hours out into days. Users could generally do exactly as they liked on their workstations.

My home environemnt is a PC one. The part about most recent loss of time, in reference to security systems is about my printer (now that I work at home). I am actually unable to use it now because the hardware has bad security certificates that prevent me from installing the software. I have reinstalled, uninstalled, did other tasks that really wasted time numerous times over the past month.

[itskoi.livejournal.com]

As a matter of fact I am now on software uninstall 17, whicih takes up a lot of RAM, and has now frozen everything but this window on my computer.

[guppiecat]

With enough responses, the guessing factor should self-correct.

[guppiecat]

If they were meaningless, then odds are you'll be filtered out when I analyze the data. :)

Seriously, the survey is aimed at people that work with Windows in a standard corporate environment. It may be useful outside of that, but that's my main focus.

So far as the "valid snapshot of security needs and annoyances", that's actually not what I'm going for. I can't discuss it at length yet, since the paper isn't done, but the whole point of the research is to look for areas where current analysis is lacking, so I'm not surprised that to see your response here.

[guppiecat]

Yeah, if you don't work in "standard corporate America", some questions won't really apply... but interesting patterns may emerge anyway.

[guppiecat]

If you are filling it out, I would like for you to fill it out for what you can do. This will filter in the appropriate analysis bins when I sort by job role.

However, if you are in a position to have some of your users fill it out, I'd appreciate their perspective as well.

[guppiecat]

That'd be great. And yes, the URL should be able to be passed around.

Thank you.

[beki.livejournal.com]

I've gone and filled it out :)

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Okay, but my answers wouldn't have been all that different if I had answered as Instructor for Hennepin Technical College (which I was for a few years), when I used a PC in a corporate environment. There were still questions when "NA" would have been the best answer.

Hope your research works out!

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

ah, i was wondering why so little of it seemed relevant