Comments on: Voicebox – making the most of engagement http://www.timdavies.org.uk/2009/08/01/voicebox-making-the-most-of-engagement/ social technologies, civic participation & social change Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:53:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: mas http://www.timdavies.org.uk/2009/08/01/voicebox-making-the-most-of-engagement/comment-page-1/#comment-85447 mas Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:44:53 +0000 http://www.timdavies.org.uk/?p=2494#comment-85447 it's very nicely done and it's good to see some effort being made to do this and even better that the data is being made available although I don't get if the 'open source' claim means they're just making the data available or if they'll be making the rest of it available for people to adapt for their own purposes? What I do always wonder with just about all online surveys is about the validity of responses - how can you be sure that respondents are who they say they are and not for example people like me playing around to see how it works, or people outside of the target group or people in it but submitting multiple responses to try and bias results towards their own interests? Not to say it's not worth trying but with so much weak 'research' around people will understandably be increasingly critical of quality, or at least they should! it’s very nicely done and it’s good to see some effort being made to do this and even better that the data is being made available although I don’t get if the ‘open source’ claim means they’re just making the data available or if they’ll be making the rest of it available for people to adapt for their own purposes?

What I do always wonder with just about all online surveys is about the validity of responses – how can you be sure that respondents are who they say they are and not for example people like me playing around to see how it works, or people outside of the target group or people in it but submitting multiple responses to try and bias results towards their own interests? Not to say it’s not worth trying but with so much weak ‘research’ around people will understandably be increasingly critical of quality, or at least they should!

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