Talk:FamilySearch Evaluation Survey

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A few more thoughts about the project to consider:


 * Please remember that we are asking for your opinion. If you were the one who entered your search query into FamilySearch.org, Ancestry.com, Google.com, or any other search engine, how would you feel about the result?


 * Also, the training presentation that goes step-by-step through the project contains the opinions of the creator. As I said before, we are asking for your opinion, so you may disagree with some of the values that the creator of the training entered. Personally, I would have entered a 1 in the Relationship field for Line 2 in the example (slide 9), because the query included father and mother and the result did not, but I can understand the opinion that led her to index a 4 (I suppose she was thinking we can infer that because his name is Michael Kline, his father might also be named Michael Kline). On Line 6, I would have indexed a 5 for the Date field (slide 12) because all dates are within the date range of the query (1900-2010). We are simply asking for you to judge how you would feel if these results were given to you after you entered your query.


 * Finally, a little further explanation as to why “Not requested by query” equals a 5. The logic behind the 5 is that because you didn’t ask for the information, any information that we give you in the result is just a bonus, above-and-beyond what you asked of us.

cannot find the evaluation when I click download batch
I have just gone to the download batch screen and the evaluation survey does not show under prefered or all projects. Am I doing something wrong or ?

Hmmm. Everyone in your stake should be able to see the project. Have you tried clicking on the Project Name column to sort the list by name and then look between España and France? --GaleK 17:42, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

To find the survey when you Download, you have to select All Projects.

Instructions don't match fields
Project Information mentions a field, "Does Record match Query?" There is no field entitled as such.


 * Thank you for catching that. I'll pass the information on to the project creator. It should be referring to the field with this really long title: "In general, if you had made this query, how satisfied would you be with the result?" --GaleK 21:44, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Also as an example if number 8 search result matches 5, 6, or 7 we only have a choice of 1-4.


 * Sounds like you are referring to the field titled, "Do any of the search results above this one appear to be the same?" The drop-down list includes the following options: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, N-None of the Above or Not Applicable. You just need to scroll down on the list to see the options of 5, 6, 7, or N. GaleK 21:44, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Also looking at result '8' - an alternate explanation of above entry by GayleK:
 * If result 7 (up one) is a duplicate of result 8, choose '7' in drop down menu.
 * If result 6 (up two) is a duplicate of reuslt 8, choose '6' in drop down menu.
 * If 6 or 7 are NOT duplicates, choose 'N' None of above' at bottom of drop down menu. 
 * If 6 or 7 are NOT duplicates, choose 'N' None of above' at bottom of drop down menu. 

Confused by the Query itsself
The Query I was evaluating had a preffered From Date and a Preffered To Date. I assumed that it meant that the person was looking for any information between those two dates. So I marked the results acceptable if the event date fell in between those, no matter what the event. The field instructions seemed to indicate that if a birth date was queried and a marriage date was returned, this would not be an acceptable result. But with just "Preffered From and To" I can't tell if the person was looking for a birth date, death date or what. Perhaps this is a fault in the familysearch program itself - that you can't specify what type of date you are looking for. It would be nice if the survey allowed comments to be entered as to why we chose certain responses.

The FamilySearch site does allow the researcher to indicate the preferred event, but not everyone chooses to use that option or sees that they can use that option. If you work on more batches, you may come across a search query that specifies "Pref'd Birth Date" or something like that instead of just the generic "Pref'd Event Date." With records that specify "Birth" as the event, you would look for only birth dates that fit the time period. But you are right that for the queries you saw (that did not specify an event), any date for any event that fits within the requested time period would be acceptable. --GaleK 02:22, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

This is a very large project--50,000 batches. While a comments field would be helpful, there would be too many comments to review them all, and with such a large project there will be enough data to see the trends and target the problem areas. Hope this makes sense. --GaleK 02:22, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Can't submit completed survey
Solution when evaluation survey has been completed but it is greying out and will not allow it to be submitted?

I haven't experienced that one, but you could try returning the batch to give to another indexer. That way your work will be saved and the next indexer who downloads it can simply submit the batch. Unfortunately, you won't get credit for the work. --GaleK 02:02, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

I finally got a batch where 2 of the search results match
I knew that when I finally saw this situation that it would be obvious, I just didn't realize how obvious. This was the first time I got to index a number instead of N-None of the Above for the last field. --GaleK 02:23, 12 April 2011 (UTC)



Thoughts about the project
I notice that I've been getting some incomplete batches where the image has been marked unreadable. Even tho the fix is simply magnifying the batch, I think some indexers take one look and give up without trying. Just sayin'.

Next, as far as satisfaction goes, I think a lot of the results that I find unsatisfactory are because gender isn't specified. I just did a Josephine and got a bunch of Josephs. Maybe you could consider making Male/Female/Either a required field and save some teeth gnashing on the part of the searcher. My 2cents.

Thank you for the feedback. We'll make sure it gets to the right people. --GaleK 15:35, 19 April 2011 (UTC)