Reality check request

[firecat]

A 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?

Comments

[outlier_lynn]

This is either some form of ignorant poll creation or some form of strategic plan to prevent change. This should have started out as a straight up or down poll for change.

I agree with you that 70% want some change. That should have been enough for committee to say, "We are going to change the policy. Now, let's work out the details of the change."

This lumping of aspects of the policy into one poll is almost always going to create governing paralysis. Maybe the intent, but I no longer assume that people are that strategic. Rather, I assume they are just shooting from the hip of ignorance. :)

[firecat]

Thanks for your comments (I agree they're not being strategic, just flailing)