Separate health issues?
There are always biases in every survey, and there are sources of error in every scientific experiment. That's why people use control are comparator groups. For example, in the former contributors survey conveniently worked out where half the respondents said they had good experiences at Wikipedia and just didn't have time to keep editing, with the other half talking about specific bad experiences that at least partially motivated them to leave. We learned more comparing these two groups than just using the top line numbers.
See the diagram on the right. Your theory of admin flight has no merit, respectfully.
As a statistician, I urge you to refrain from attempting to exclude legitimate independent variables while claiming that you have some means of controlling for sources of error after having done so. There is no such means of control available when independent variables are completely excluded from a poll.
Furthermore, your attempt to cover up these concerns does not conform to accepted inter-project talk page conventions. Therfore, I have replaced the material you deleted.
Nobody has yet put forth a single reason, legitimate or otherwise, that health is not a factor in admin attrition, in the face of obesity being in the top two preventable causes of death and abundant photographic evidence that meetup attendees are above average weight. No amount of reversion will make up for shoddy statistical workmanship.
Just to say that you are too late and that the survey was already turned to the WMF.
And yes thank to your crappy argumentation, i doubt you will convince the Foundation to include you question as a last minute change.
It happens that some persons from the Foundation do read our discussion threads and see by themselves how much your argumentation suck.
Note: We can leave your "historical" content as it is "historical" because the Foundation will not fellow suit.
As I can see that the opposition on this issue has nothing left than a willingness to revert solid evidence without comment and resort to ad hominem attacks, I have asked Philippe Beaudette, who claims that he has "not insignificant" experience with survey design, to a public debate on this topic.[1]
I am closely familiar with the applied statistical mathematics inherent in survey design, and the peer reviewed secondary medical literature on the topic and I look forward to seeing them upheld.
All i can understand is that You want a custom tailored survey to "support" your point.
I may be wrong but that how i read your argumentation. A slanted survey giving biased results to support The already made conclusion.
If the conclusion were already made, then a survey would not be necessary.
However, excluding an independent variable implies that variable is not any part of the mutual hypotheses.
Nope.
That's always good to fabricate self justification & evidences to support already made conclusions.
What are you saying has been fabricated? Do you have any actual evidence supporting your one-word dismissal of the mathematical facts I stated? They are evident from first principles.