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Results of KMail Icon Test #1

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 by Björn Balazs

It is great to see how many people participated in the first icon test for KMail: 3327 started the test and 2399 finished. This is a drop-out of about 28% across the whole study and fairly good for this kind of study – especially seeing the technical difficulties we had when we started the study.

Here is a first brief summary of the results:

  • Selected language: English: 2244, German: 659, Spanish: 313, Polish: 109
  • Gender: Male: 98%, Female: 2%
  • Average Age: 29 years (from 10 to 88)

It is great to see that we got sufficient participants for reliable results in all languages!

As you might know, our test combines multiple indicators and calculates a single value for each icon-term relationship. The maximum value an icon-term-relation can reach is 10,0. Following I split up the results into 3 groups: (more…)