Digital Privacy survey for a Masters thesis

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I hope it’s ok if I post this here, but I think if people are using Nix then there’s a good chance they are interested in digital privacy. Nix users seem to be fans of privacy tools (password managers etc.), myself included!

I’m doing a digital privacy survey for my Masters thesis, and would be very happy if Nix users would take part. It’s online and should only take 4-5 minutes.

Every possible privacy option (stop and delete data at any time, etc.) is enabled.

https://survey.fom.de/digitalprivacy/

Thanks very much and kind regards.

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Hi, I’ve read the questionnaire and regarding it’s formulation it seems to lean heavily toward advocates of privacy.

Have you considered a selection bias where predominantly people who care about privacy will fill out that form?

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Hi,

Yes, I’ve considered two biases, which might affect it, which I will disclose in my thesis:

  1. It could be perceived as pro-privacy which could affect who participates and the kind of answers.
  2. I’m sharing the link in tech forums, so tech-enthusiasts might be over-represented. As Nix in particular is more than 95% men, it will also risk one gender being over-represented.

So far, there have also been fairly negative answers given, including in the comments, so I seem to have gotten lucky with the first of those two biases (so far). But I can already see the second one is a problem, so I’ll have to share the link in places with more women to balance out the participants.

Thank you for the feedback.