Indeed, this is OT. :-)
The way you have phrased your question, you are asking us for help to design
your study. Certainly very OT.
Once your study is designed, and it is of clear, potential benefit to the R
community, posting a concise _announcement_ here would not offend me.
Hope this helps.
B.
On Jun 29, 2015, at 8:02 PM, Carlos Gomez <cagomezt at uvic.ca> wrote:
> Dear r-help mailing list,
>
> Some colleagues and I are working on a series of research studies related
> to mailing list, and Stack Overflow. While I do understand that this email
> would be technically off topic - it's about a study that could involve
> R-Help users - not about coding in R. I was wondering:
>
> - to what extent would you be interested in participate in academic
studies?
>
> - under what circumstances would you be willing to participate in
> interviews, user surveys, lab experiments or any other activity related
> to academic research?
>
> - Which communication channels do you think are the appropriate to send
> these kind of announcements? (if any)
>
> So, before upsetting the entire community (if this email is not doing that
> already), I will prefer to ask about it.
>
> Thank you for your consideration!
>
> Best regards,
> Carlos Gomez
>
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