[Wien] survey results

[Peter Blaha]

I've updated    http://www.wien2k.at/reg_user/faq/rkmax.html

Maybe it helps if I put a link in w2web in the initialization section next to the
RKmax input/editing ?  (But which experienced user is using w2web for intialization ?)


Am 27.06.2013 16:49, schrieb Stefaan Cottenier:
>
> One week ago, a two-question survey was posted on this mailing list.
> Here comes the result and a discussion/interpretation of the data.
>
> The goal of the survey was to collect quantitative information on the
> following hypothesis:
>
> "In the transition from code development to code usage, inevitable some awareness and knowledge about fine (?) details gets lost. Developers tend to think that users know
> more than they actually do. While users tend to think that there are less hidden subtleties than there actually are. It might well be that grey intermediate area of
> supposed/lacking knowledge is far larger than either of both parties thinks it is."
>
> The discussion of one week ago about the relation between RKmax and Rmt offered an opportunity to collect some data to examine this hypothesis. The topic was one about
> which an experienced user could think: "You can't use wien2k properly if you don't know this." While a 'general user' could think: "I can survive without this."
>
> 34 people filled out the survey. Less than the 100 I hoped for, but nevertheless sufficient for meaningful conclusions. The results can be found for a while at
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10829484/Results%20RKmax%20survey.pdf (attachment too large for this list).
>
> 1/3 of the respondents say they could have given the right answer on the RKmax question themselves. 2/3 say this was new for them. As one can expect that users who have no
> clue at all about the topic are less
> likely to take part in the survey, it seems fair to conclude that 75% or more of the wien2k community was not aware about this RKmax issue. A
> number that might surprise some people.
>
> Whereas the first question of the survey roughly probes 'understanding', the second question of the survey asked about 'experience' (measured as the amount of years someone
> has been using wien2k). Slightly less than one half of the respondents were relatively new users (<3y), the other half were quite to very much experienced (>3y, >7y). It is
> interesting to correlate the answers on both questions in a knowledge-vs-experience graph (3th page of
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10829484/Results%20RKmax%20survey.pdf ) :
>
> It is reassuring to observe in this correlation that roughly spoken understanding seems to increase as a function of experience (or time). Nevertheless, even in the
> category of the most experienced users (>7y), there are still almost twice as many who were not aware of the RKmax issue than those who were (26% vs. 15%).
>
> This is only a rough observation, that does not pretend to be a statistically significant scientific study. It does point to a trend, however.
>
> The bottom line: is there anything all of us, as a community, can do to improve the knowledge transfer towards 'general users'? Feel free to discuss this on this mailing
> list, and in particular, to post suggestions.
>
> Stefaan
>
>
>
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