Silly conference survey

[Ali Lloyd]

> Indeed, we could have given a list of an arbitrary number of places -
> Munich, Shanghai, Outer Hebrides, *Tristan da Cunha*, Nuaha...

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*of the seven seas

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:41 AM Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com> wrote:

> > The survey asked if one were likely to attend; but as the choice of
> > where one could attend was restricted the results would be
> > like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
>
> Err - no - we had a shortlist of areas in which we know we could afford
> to run a conference based on the data that we have (i.e. get enough
> people to buy tickets to attend so that we can pay for the thing).
>
> The survey was about finding out which of those was likely to be the
> most successful (in terms of a bums on seats metric).
>
> > Had you offered, say, Munich or somewhere on the Pacific rim
> > (Shanghai???) you might have got quite a few people to say they might
> > attend; but by restricting the choices you will never know.
>
> Indeed, we could have given a list of an arbitrary number of places -
> Munich, Shanghai, Outer Hebrides, Tristan da Cunha, Nuaha...
>
> However all that would have done would be to reduce the focus of the
> survey, meaning results would have been spread making it substantially
> less useful.
>
> How do we know this? Because we've run surveys for conferences like that
> in the past and they didn't really give us the information we really
> needed because they were not focused and/or specific enough.
>
> Mark.
>
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