Re: [AGA-mcm] feedback form

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

I'm pretty sure that in volunteer-to-participate assessment
surveys, those with complaints are more likely to respond.
It's one reason why random rather than self selection for
participation in a survey works better, from a statistical
point of view. That much I remember from my old copy of
Blalock. We just don't have that luxury.

We shouldn't let this stuff get to us personally, it might
be hard not to but there's too much work to do.

sh

--- Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Personally, Erik I thought you were "totally
> unprofessional" by doing a pretty darn good job of
> having to moderate judges who were kind of put on the
> spot to explain themselves. ;-)
> 
> I also wonder what anyone was expecting who was not
> impressed with Amano. I look at these "opinion
> surveys" much like any other statistical info - I
> throwout the high and lows and then draw conclusions.
> 
>  However, I tend to throwout more of the lows because
> I have learned in volunteer organizations like ours
> that people will go out of there way to complain but
> very few will put the same energy into complementing
> on something that they did like.
> 
> Different Strokes for different folks I guess....
> 
> Larry
> --- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Ghazanfar Ghori wrote:
> > 
> > > Sent the email out. Very curious to see the
> > feedback we get.
> > 
> > Results are starting to pour in.  Always interesting
> > to learn that there 
> > are some outlyers that thought Diana's talk was
> > "excellent" but that 
> > Amano's two presentations were "poor".  I sort of
> > wish they had left 
> > comments on why.
> > 
> > Also learning that people thought both that I was a
> > total unprofessional 
> > by letting the aquascaping awards run too long, and
> > that I was a total 
> > unprofessional by rushing onto the next category and
> > not letting the 
> > judges say everything they wanted.  :)
> > 
> >    - Erik
> > 
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