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

[silveradept]

This does not look like an even split to me, terrible questions notwithstanding. Considering the only straight up "no" answer all only garnered a thirty percent mark, I think it's safe to say that there's a request for at least some changes. Unless someone has secretly assigned more importance to certain people and their votes count more than others.

[firecat]

Thanks for the reality check! I suspect something like that might be going on.