On 09/09/2015 01:41 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote:
The survey asked if one were likely to attend; but as the choice of
where one could attend was restricted the results would be
like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Err - no - we had a shortlist of areas in which we know we could
afford to run a conference based on the data that we have (i.e. get
enough people to buy tickets to attend so that we can pay for the thing).
The survey was about finding out which of those was likely to be the
most successful (in terms of a bums on seats metric).
Had you offered, say, Munich or somewhere on the Pacific rim
(Shanghai???) you might have got quite a few people to say they might
attend; but by restricting the choices you will never know.
Indeed, we could have given a list of an arbitrary number of places -
Munich, Shanghai, Outer Hebrides, Tristan da Cunha, Nuaha...
However all that would have done would be to reduce the focus of the
survey, meaning results would have been spread making it substantially
less useful.
How do we know this? Because we've run surveys for conferences like
that in the past and they didn't really give us the information we
really needed because they were not focused and/or specific enough.
Mark.
Aha.
Thanks.
Richmond.
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