On 6/10/13, Tony Hain <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, [snip] > starting point, it might make more sense to have Arin hire a professional > survey developer to create the questions for an "unbiased about the > outcome" > manner as possible.
Professional survey developers are expensive, and we don't need for membership fees to go up for more expensive policy development, requiring professional survey developers. It's also important to understand, that any survey conducted on PPML mailing lists will suffer selection bias, causing the outcome to potentially deviate from the actual view of the larger RIR community, so there can't be an entirely unbiased survey here; even if the questions are perfectly unbiased, a survey conducted on the mailing list would have some inherent bias. I would say what it really means is that simple "Yes" answers, cannot legitimately be interpreted as a show of support for the policy draft; or its current text, unless that was also asserted by the respondent. A simple "Yes" to (1) for example, may be merely a show in favor of sustainability as a principal; after the respondant scans the question, and sees the word sustainability in there, which imparts a certain emotional context for the reader. A prevailing idea; "Justified need" and "conservation" are just passive riders, that the simple "Yes" respondent doesn't necessarily support but has to accept by default when saying "Yes"; and doesn't distinguish them without spending extra labor, time, and energy, to further elaborate. Furthermore, they are all framed as Yes/No questions, where "Yes" is deemed to be "Recommended", or "Constructive", which is equated with good. Which goes along the same lines as "Developing policy is constructive," and therefore deemed good, even if, perhaps the effect of the policy is not so great. Meanwhile "Not adopting policy" is deemed as non-constructive, and therefore labelled as "bad", even, if perhaps, not adopting policy might be the more favorable outcome for the community, for now. > Tony -- -JH _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
