[Bigbang-dev] Potential things to ask of big bang

[Niels ten Oever]

I think this notebook is something Davide and I can commit to. If it is
still in time for you Corinne? Or do other people think a basic
statistics notebook is useful as well?

Cheers,

Niels

Niels ten Oever

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On 07/02/2018 12:39 AM, Nick Doty wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2018, at 5:47 PM, Sebastian Benthall <sbenthall at gmail.com
> <mailto:sbenthall at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>         2. how many people are subscribed to a list in total?
>>         if I remember correctly, not even in principle
>>
>>
>>     ​Interesting, why is this the case? ​
>>
>>
>> David is quite right on this point.
>>
>> The data we currently have available are archived emails sent to the
>> mailing list. Essentially, it is what you would see if you were a
>> subscriber yourself, in your inbox.
>>
>> From this we can identify who has *sent* to the mailing list.
>>
>> But subscribers who never send a message are not represented in the data.
> 
> I've gotten this question before from people reviewing my work on
> mailing list analysis. It might potentially be very interesting to know
> who is participating in the sense of just receiving emails by
> subscribing to the list without sending any messages. But that data is
> typically not public; probably mostly for spam-protection reasons, but
> there might also be a privacy interest in subscribing to a mailing list
> without letting others know that you have.
> 
> People who operate mailing lists do have access to that subscriber list,
> so you could potentially get mailing list owners to share that data for
> research purposes under some sort of confidentiality agreement and with
> IRB review. I haven't gotten to that point yet, but it could be useful
> for comparing those who lurk on governance/decision-making mailing lists
> to those who send messages.
> 
> —npd
> 
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