On 18 October 2017 at 18:32, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fae wrote: >>Does the minus symbol in "-60.0%" mean anything? Being a retention >>percentage, I do not understand how it can be negative unless >>potential volunteers are getting rejected at the door before they can >>sign-up. Could that be corrected? > > My understanding is that this means that the rentention percentage was > 60% (or is it percentage points?) less than it was this time last > year. > > So its now 5%, but this time last year it was 12%. > > -- > bawolff
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I have a background as a mathematician, but that report with second-order numbers had me foxed. Now I think I understand the stats, I probably correctly appreciate that whatever actions were taken in the last 12 months to retain volunteers were not "non-successes", they are super fantastic management team learning points for the coming year... Suggestion, throw away the current plan and rather than using findings to create incremental improvement,[1] try something completely different before all the wheels fall off. I look forward to seeing some serious radical initiatives. Links: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
