On 13 Jul 2007, at 18:19, Baz Juniper wrote:
>> Meanwhile I've signed the petition, on the principle that anything
>> that
>> makes Sally Ashs's life harder is to be supported.
>
> Wot, no smiley? Those of us labouring in the public services who
> have to decide what weight to give petitions are only too aware that
> many of those who sign on the dotted line are not doing so because
> they fully support the cause. Which, of course, devalues the concept
> to some extent.
>
I do not like thee, Sally Ash, is my motto.
I see your problem with evaluating petition response, but it must be a
fairly even effect across all petitions. It did strike us collecting
sigs in Macc at the last SOW event that some people on being approached
to sign would say "Sure, what's it about?" Basically, there's a fair
degree of noise mixed with the signal. Must be scope for a research
project to estimate the ground level of automatic support for any
proposal. Like the phenomenon that all satisfaction questionnaire
surveys, like the thing you get in your hotel bedroom, return a
satisfaction rate of 75 to 80%. That's why you need qualitative
research if you really want to know the state of opinion about
anything.
I'll get off my old hobby horse now, shall I?
––
All the best
Bruce
"Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground you cannot think of
moving them" Arthur Ransome, 'Racundra's First Cruise'
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