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And even if I knew what I was supporting...I guess the plan is to raise $27/current user (which seems completely unrealistic) which will allow them to limp alon
by scrooched_moose 7y ago
And even if I knew what I was supporting...I guess the plan is to raise $27/current user (which seems completely unrealistic) which will allow them to limp along until they definitely raise $150,000 from the "Internet as a whole", which will allow them to limp along until they definitely get approved for a whole bunch of grants?
Nothing about that inspires any confidence and left me pretty convinced that I would be flushing money down the drain on a project that'll be dead in 3 weeks.
I can definitely see they are passionate about it, but the messaging needs a ton of work.
- sqrt17 7y agoTo quote from the article, > We polled our users and asked them what they would be willing do donate and the average was twenty seven dollars, and of course we have thousands of users Which is based on the illusion that you get an unbiased sample when you ask users to respond to a poll. You don't - the people most likely to sacrifice a moment of their time are also those more likely to come forward with money, conversely those who didn't fill out the questionnaire probably have a majority of people who won't give any money.
- amelius 7y agoHow would you fix this kind of bias?
- sqrt17 7y agoThe only way I've seen this addressed is using the idea that late responders are more similar to non-responders than early responders - so in a study where you suspect that non-responders have a different bias to responders you'd use late responses to get an idea about what non-responding people would have answered.
- alexandercrohde 7y agoRight? Not to be a dick, but it sounds like this is roughly something not unlike a search engine. Google was built in a garage and available for free for its whole existence. So as much as I believe in the abstract idea of making knowledge more accessible online, I'm not gonna pay before I see a working example of something better, and I might never pay.
- behringer 7y agoI'd pay for a google that wasn't run by google.
- behringer 7y agoAlso the premium parts, are those open source? What is the premium stuff? He promises a breakdown and doesn't show anything on this page, and the donate page is broken.