On Apr 24, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Andreas Hauser wrote:
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
committee
n 1: a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a
committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours"
- Milton Berle [syn: {commission}]
2: a self-constituted organization to promote something [syn: {citizens
committee}]
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I was advocating the community approach not the committee approach. The current approach was a committee in the second sense, which was in my opinion pretty OK up the point of testing the survey, at which point i would have appreciated involving the community.
And yet, definition #1 is what usually occurs when dozens (hundreds?) of disparate individuals attempt to come to a consensus on new material. It is much more efficient and productive to get an initial version out and allow the community to offer constructive criticism where appropriate. There is no need to solicit the entire community's input for the draft of a questionnaire.
-- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net
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