Re: [atlarge-discuss] Is This The Party To Whom I Am Speaking...

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Bruce and all fellow members,

  No bruce look it up again.  Richard already posted the results
as have myself and Walter several times.  The percentage was
14% I believe.

bruce@barelyadequate.info wrote:

> Jeff Williams wrote:
>
> |    This is true Bruce, but does not and did not apply any longer
> |  or further when the Panel was devolved or otherwise done
> |  away with via the poll that Joop took and a representative sample
> |  of the members voted in favor to remove that Panel in favor of electing
> |  a new panel.
>
> Joop's poll engaged less than 10% of the membership, was conducted outside
> the official auspices of this organization without prior coordination, was
> conducted without oversight, used questions that were heavily weighted to
> Joop's way of thinking and not reviewed by anyone prior to asking them.
> Further, the poll was not announced to the membership as a whole in advance,
> so that all members had the option to participate!  As a result, the only
> members participating were those who were already gravitating to his forum
> anyway.  That is like polling the preacher and the choir during choir
> practice, then saying that this poll indicates the will of the whole
> congregation!  It was a flawed sample.
>
> Currently, the only method of determining the will of the membership is to
> ask them.  That is what we are doing.  God forbid we ever allow a
> so-called "representative sample" chosen in this manner to be used to set
> policy for this organization!
>
> Bruce Young
> Portland, Oregon USA
> bruce@barelyadequate.info
> http://www.barelyadequate.info
> --------------------------------------------
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Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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