Hi :) Yes, i was one of the respondants. If i had thought it serious or "leading somewhere" in anyway at all then i would have carefully avoided responding. At a guess i'm not the only respondant thinking that way. I think a few answers, such as Tom C's, are interesting because it kinda shows what we were talking about in another recent thread. Even people who don't have aspergers often exhibit signs of it often due to their expertise in a particular area. Also if there seem to be rules some of us feel compelled to rebel (such as Gavin's response being in order but not giving percentages) or do so accidentally. I think it is helping because it helps us understand what kind of level of expertise we can expect from certain posters. So when i try to answer questions about Calc, or Base there are clearly limits on how much i understand or have stumbled through myself. it's part of why i try to stick to "waggle the wires" and generic answers rather than diving into specifics and why i drop questions once they start getting expert answers (or at least better ones than i am likely to be able to help with). Regards from Tom :) On 13 May 2014 14:41, Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com> wrote:
Yes, Tom D., this was just for fun, and given the response from so many people, I think most have taken it in the way I intended. Virgil On 05/13/2014 07:48 AM, Tom Davies wrote:Hi :) It's just a "just for fun" survey of what people think they use. The modules can't be split up and removing any wouldn't reduce the code=base by much at all so the usual sinister hidden-agendas behind this sort of question are entirely absent. It's just for fun. For a lot of us this sort of thing is very difficult because answering would require us have really measured usage and give accurate answers rather than guesses. It's the type of question that neurotypicals and mainstream-press articles seem to enjoy but that are ultimately fairly pointless. It's just for fun and it's interesting to see people's estimates of what they do and to see how they handle giving answers to this sort of thing. http://musingsofanaspie.com/2013/01/10/what-is-neurotypical/ If we wanted a formal vote then there are various tools such as "Survey Monkey", or we could set-up something in LinuxQuestions.Org" or "Ask LO" or somewhere. Regards from Tom :) On 13 May 2014 06:06, Tom Cloyd <tomcloydmsma@gmail.com> wrote: On 05/11/2014 03:53 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by thepeople on this list. I think it helps to know different folks' area of experience. It might also help us in learning new ways to integrate the different components. For myself, my approximate usage is: Writer (85% of my use of LO) Calc (10%) Impress (3%, Maybe four to five presentations a year) Base (once a year to print out labels for my Christmas cards) Draw (What's that?) Virgil Virgil,I have a considerable background in inferential statistics, and have done formal survey research, in a variety of social and cultural contexts. I want to warn you that this sort of self-select, opt-in survey is NOT the way to go, if your question is serious. You ARE only going to get a subset (sample) of your population of interest, and you'll have no way to relate that subset to the population, thus no way to draw any valid conclusions from the subset. It's pseudo-research, which creates the impression of creating knowledge without actually doing so. Just something for you, and others, to think about. Hope it's helpful. Tom -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tom Cloyd, MS MA (LMHC, WA State) Cedar City / St. George, UT, U.S.A: (435) 272-3332 * << tc@tomcloyd.com >> (email) << TomCloyd.com >> (website) * Sleight of Mind blog: Sleightmind.com (mental health issues) * Founder: Google+ Trauma and Dissociation Education and Advocacy community ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted-- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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