On 7/9/2013 8:59 AM, Scott Brim wrote:
The sample is better at 140 if individuals represent themselves, but
not if they are swayed by their organizational affiliation, and
organization is now a significant factor in what we can expect from
volunteers -- not all, but even some of those from organizations where
the volunteers are long time participants. I support this idea. I
think the gain is greater than the loss, and it even fosters diversity.
I don't have a lot of time to chat about this, but
- I agree with Scott that it matters what voting members are guided by
(organization, personal experience, intuition, flipping coins ...)
- I suspect that it's not possible to predict what any 10 voting members
chosen at random will be guided by
- I'm not sure we can even know what the 10 voting members *were* guided
by, unless the behavior is so bad that the advisor freaks out or the
chair tells us in the plenary Nomcom report
If people want to think about the Nomcom volunteer pool, it may be
useful to wonder about whether the perspective of voting members from
more organizations would help the Nomcom make better choices.
Of course, I'm not sure we can predict that, either :-)
Spencer
