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RE: ⚓ Sailors at work - Refurbish our old bell and belaying pins
please do me the favor and give me a comment when this is done and you have some results, i think i see where this is leading but still... 5 steem would be more appropriate for the length of the survey but i helped you out anyway :)
In regards to privacy, it is not a good idea that a steemit id is attached to the given data, this should be hashed, or left out since this is personal data + the given answers can be very revealing, almost inappropriate (social status e.g.). I do have some idea how privacy works and what our rights are + the regulatory aspect of this.
fair winds!
Sure you bet. Thanks again for your participation and for replying with this thoughtful comment. Think you raised a fair point. For the amount of compensation, I had to consider the recent surge of Steem. As of now it costs 1.23 in dollars for 1 Steem, and considering the current US minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, I thought 2 Steem could make 15-min participation. Of course it depends on the different amount of efforts each participant makes and the volatility of Steem coin value, so the amount of compensation might be adjusted in response to the market condition.
For the privacy aspect, yeah, there might be a point that each responder can feel it is too revealing. To relieve that concern, I went through my institution's IRB review to ensure that my research wil not harm human subjects and will use it for research purposes only (every user's identity should be anonymized and protected when they appear in any published research). If you find cases where your and any other users' identity have been inappropriately disclosed, you can contact me anytime through the contact info displayed on the front page of the survey. For the social status question, this is just an approximation of how individuals see themselves in their social ladder, not any quantifiable number or classes. Given the Steemit's international user base and various cultural contexts, it is extremely unlikely that certain participants will be captured accurately from this data.
Hope this answer can ease your concerns, at least to an extent. I will try to keep you informed about the outcome of this research.
Thank you for that reply. I am happy to read that we are on the same page. I am interested were this will lead. Cool you can keep me in the loop.
And yes, I was thinking that the current price made that steem choice logical :-) - It is all good. I like what you do.
Bests!