On 28 Feb 2018 at 8:23, Willie via EV wrote: > > They finally agreed to do a poll. Please take this poll and show 'em! > > > > Not that there will be any validity to the poll.
Correct, and the promotion above is one reason! A poll isn't like an election, where the object is to determine the future. It's an effort to find out what exists now. You don't get accurate answers by letting rspondents tell all their friends to "vote" some particular way. To put it another way, participants in internet polls like this one are self- selected, so the polls have no statistical value. They're easily dismissed, and they should be. If Green Car Reports separately and individually contacted members of a representative sample of EV owners from all over, privately asking their charging energy source, that would work fine -- as long as proper polling methods were followed rigorously. They could even use a web response form, as long as they also used some method to keep respondents from taking the survey more than once, and/or encouraging friends to take it (to deliberatly skew the results). For example, they might give each respondent an access code that only works once. This "poll" is cheap and easy to do. It's a quick way to get Robert (and presumably others) to stop bugging them about the matter. But it's going to produce garbage results, and I suspect GCR knows it. It's an opportunity wasted. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
