Reality check request
28 Aug 2016 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firecatA steering committee for a weekly event polled the membership asking whether it should make a policy change about who can attend the event. This was the result of the poll:
No, I do not want to change the policy - 30%
Yes, I would like to change the policy - 41%
Yes, I would like to change the policy, but only for one meeting a month - 18%
Yes, I would like to change the policy, but retain the current policy once a month - 27%
These poll results were described as "The community was fairly evenly split about this idea" and the decision of the committee was "For the time being we will not be making changes."
These figures add up to more than 100%, so it's hard to gauge, but it seems to me that the membership is not in fact "fairly evenly split" at all. What I see is that at least 70% of the votes are in favor of changing the policy.
However, I'm strongly in favor of changing the policy, so I am biased. What do you think?
No, I do not want to change the policy - 30%
Yes, I would like to change the policy - 41%
Yes, I would like to change the policy, but only for one meeting a month - 18%
Yes, I would like to change the policy, but retain the current policy once a month - 27%
These poll results were described as "The community was fairly evenly split about this idea" and the decision of the committee was "For the time being we will not be making changes."
These figures add up to more than 100%, so it's hard to gauge, but it seems to me that the membership is not in fact "fairly evenly split" at all. What I see is that at least 70% of the votes are in favor of changing the policy.
However, I'm strongly in favor of changing the policy, so I am biased. What do you think?
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Date: 29 Aug 2016 12:09 pm (UTC)The total of these is 116% so I normalized everything by dividing by 116 so things add to 100% and retain the same proportions. And so I stop going ????? why????? At which point you get:
No = 26%
Yes = 35%
Yes, once/month = 16%
Yes, 3x/month = 23%
To simplify it further, 74% (normalized so things add to 100%) or 86% (with the weird adds-to-116%-numbers) of people want to change things at least once a month. 58% (normalized) or 68% (raw numbers) want to change things at least 3x/month.
Calling that "fairly evenly split" is disingenuous.
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Date: 29 Aug 2016 06:08 pm (UTC)