[MR] FW: SCA Census..

[Aedan Aylwyn]

Oops, meant to send this out to everyone...

Aedan

-----Original Message-----
From: Aedan Aylwyn [mailto:aedan at mindspring.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:07 AM
To: 'sigrune at aol.com'
Subject: RE: [MR] SCA Census..

I think it starts with the assumption that the survey somehow represents a
fair cross section of people that play in the SCA.  I think this is very
false and can lead a reader into pulling false conclusions from it.

The survey represents those that were interested enough to take the survey.
Personally, I got part way through it and gave up as it was far too long and
I felt it was not worth my time.

So *my* guess is that the reason you find the high proportion of folks with
long time experience in the SCA on the survey is that those were the people
motivated enough to slog their way through the survey.

As simple as that...

Aedan

PS I still think it has a lot of valuable information in it, but not to the
point of analyzing the importance of 3% here versus 5% there.  Look at the
big picture results and stick with that.

-----Original Message-----
From: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of
sigrune at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:26 AM
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [MR] SCA Census..

To all, involved or monitoring this discussion I would like to 
contribute my own opinions on the matter and make observations of fact 
as appropriate.

Observation:  Some people pointed to the released data and stated 
membership/participation is down. Some have pointed to the released 
data and said membership/participation is stable or up.  How can this 
both be true? I am seriously baffled by this.