Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey

[Thibaut Verron]

> This means that the results will be biased in two ways:
>
> * In favor of people who use the forums he posted it in.

It has been (and can be) posted in many places, including presently emacs-devel.

> * Against people who won't run nonfree software.

The survey can be completed without running nonfree software, by
sending an e-mail.

> The results may be of use anyway, but they will not describe a
> represent sample of all Emacs users.

I agree, but that's because of difficulties inherent to polling, not
because of a bias that could have been easily avoided.