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>Anyone have experience surveying project teams anonymously? There is an interesting way to do this anonymously in a larger organization where people don't tru
by logicallee 7y ago
>Anyone have experience surveying project teams anonymously?
There is an interesting way to do this anonymously in a larger organization where people don't trust the anonymity of their votes: you can ask everyone to flip a coin and report it in answer to:
"Consider whether the project will be successful (yes/no.) We will survey responses anonymously/statistically. In this way no individual reporting will be known. A single time (don't repeat this for this question), flip a coin. Consider whether the project will be successful (yes/no), then choose one of the two options:
[1] You both think the project will be successful (yes) AND you flipped heads.
[2] You either don't think the project will be successful, or you flipped tails (or both).
In other words, anyone flipping tails must pick 2. So on an individual level, you have plausible deniability, since you can say you support the project but flipped tails.
Statistically, we will measure what percentage below 50 flipped heads, to see how many people think our project will fail."
Due to this methodology, people can voice dissent. In toxic despotic environments, you will have 100% heads. (Which should not be possible, since you can only go below 50% for heads at a statistically significant level, not above.)
I'm not sure what size organization this can work at statistically but it's an interesting method.