Evaluation Fairness & Representation Perceptions Survey for Developers
Measures software developers' perceptions of fairness, bias, and representativeness in their evaluation practices. Ideal for engineering leadership and DEI teams seeking to identify gaps in evaluation methodology and build more inclusive processes.
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Which best describes your primary development focus?
Which evaluation method did you rely on most in the last 6 months?
How important is fairness in your evaluation decisions?
How concerned are you that unrepresentative samples may have affected your evaluation results in the last 12 months?
If you faced any trade-offs between accuracy, speed, and fairness in recent evaluations, please briefly describe them.
How many years of professional development experience do you have?
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Have you been involved in evaluating software, systems, or models in the last 12 months?
In your recent evaluations, did you consider sensitive attributes (e.g., gender, ethnicity, income)?
To what extent do you agree: Our evaluation criteria are applied consistently across different user groups.
Which sampling strategy did you use most often in the last 12 months?
Based on your responses in this survey, what would most improve fairness and representativeness in your evaluations?
What is your current seniority level?
In a typical month, approximately how much of your time is spent on evaluation activities?
Which safeguard was most important when handling sensitive attributes in your evaluations?
To what extent do you agree: I have adequate tools and methods to detect bias in evaluation outcomes.
Rank the following segments by priority for coverage in your evaluations (top = highest priority).
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Which region do you primarily work in?
To what extent do you agree: Stakeholders from diverse backgrounds are involved in designing our evaluations.
Approximately what minimum sample size do you typically need to trust a feature-level evaluation decision?
Approximately how many employees are in your organization?
To what extent do you agree: Fairness considerations sometimes conflict with other priorities such as speed or cost.
How confident are you that your evaluations fairly represent real-world use?
How many people are on the team you primarily work with?
In one or two sentences, how do you define a "fair" evaluation?
What is your primary industry or domain?
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