Thank you for your feedback!
We understand that the question about education levels may have been confusing, especially when trying to map the German school system to the categories provided.
The answer options in our survey are based on ISCED 2011 – the International Standard Classification of Education, developed by UNESCO. This is a globally recognized framework used to ensure that education levels can be compared across countries, despite differences in national education systems.
To help clarify, here is how the German terms you mentioned generally correspond to ISCED categories:
- Grundschule → Primary Education
- Hauptschule / Realschule → Lower Secondary Education
- Gymnasium (until Abitur) → Upper Secondary Education
- Studium (university studies) → depending on the degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent tertiary education level / Master’s degree or equivalent tertiary education level Doctoral degree or equivalent tertiary education level)
Thank you very much for your thoughtful feedback!
You’ve raised an important point: cloud service providers are not all the same, and their business models can significantly influence how much trust users place in them. We fully agree that there's a big difference between providers like Backblaze, whose value proposition is built on privacy and reliability, and companies like Google, where monetization often relies on extensive data collection.
The purpose of this section in the survey is to explore general perceptions and motivations behind, not to evaluate individual providers. However, we understand that this generalization can be limiting — especially for respondents who distinguish clearly between different types of services and trust models. Your situation, where you answered "Neither agree nor disagree" not out of indecision but due to the complexity of the issue, is very insightful.
Thanks again for taking the time to share this, it’s greatly appreciated!