Comments on: Readers Suggest New CONTENTIOUS Topics (Survey Results, Part 8) http://www.contentious.com/2004/09/05/readers-suggest-new-contentious-topics-survey-results-part-8/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:51:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Amy Gahran http://www.contentious.com/2004/09/05/readers-suggest-new-contentious-topics-survey-results-part-8/#comment-496 Amy Gahran Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:00:01 +0000 #comment-496 Yeah, I guess that's another way of looking at it. However, I figured it was much less likely the case given the overwhelming volume of positive comments I received. Sorry switching from mouse to keyboard was too much of a physical demand for your taste. Next time I'll activate SurveyMonkey's telepathic input feature, which requires no muscular effort whatsoever. :-) - Amy Gahran Yeah, I guess that’s another way of looking at it. However, I figured it was much less likely the case given the overwhelming volume of positive comments I received.

Sorry switching from mouse to keyboard was too much of a physical demand for your taste. Next time I’ll activate SurveyMonkey’s telepathic input feature, which requires no muscular effort whatsoever.

:-)

- Amy Gahran

]]> By: Singletoned http://www.contentious.com/2004/09/05/readers-suggest-new-contentious-topics-survey-results-part-8/#comment-495 Singletoned Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:43:00 +0000 #comment-495 "This means that only about 18% of respondents had new topics to suggest." No it doesn't. It means that 18% bothered to give you a new topic. Maybe everyone had new topics to suggest, but only 18% bothered to think of one and enter it. (I did actually, but almost didn't. Ticking boxes is quick and easy, but then to transfer to a keyboard to start tapping away, just to give away my good ideas is a bit much to ask). Also, this could be viewed as 'almost a fifth of your most devoted readers (the less devoted ones didn't bother filling in the survey) are so dissatisfied with your coverage that they took the effort to suggest ways you could improve it'. “This means that only about 18% of respondents had new topics to suggest.”

No it doesn’t. It means that 18% bothered to give you a new topic. Maybe everyone had new topics to suggest, but only 18% bothered to think of one and enter it. (I did actually, but almost didn’t. Ticking boxes is quick and easy, but then to transfer to a keyboard to start tapping away, just to give away my good ideas is a bit much to ask).

Also, this could be viewed as ‘almost a fifth of your most devoted readers (the less devoted ones didn’t bother filling in the survey) are so dissatisfied with your coverage that they took the effort to suggest ways you could improve it’.

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