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Re: [FRC Blog] Two Championship Survey Results and Path Forward
There's an awful lot of analysis going on. That makes sense because so many of us are engineers. We love to crunch numbers. A lot of that effort is wasted, though. The survey methods weren't designed to give precise answers, for all of the reasons so many others have already stated. This is a non-scientific poll, which is only good for getting a quick read on the general feelings of a non-uniform sample.
Taking a step back, though, the message is pretty clear. The big bars are on the left. The little bars are on the right. Generally speaking, the people who responded to this survey were pretty negative about the split. You don't need much mathematics to reach that conclusion.
Which brings up a couple of very obvious questions.
Do the survey results reflect opinion in general?
Why is the leadership pretending that somehow the survey results are neutral or only slightly negative?
From the discussion and analysis, though, I see a couple of other things.
One is that I find it interesting that there was a significant split between those who had never attended and those who had attended. That, to me, is meaningful.
The other thing that leaps out to me, mostly from the discussions, is....districts. Everyone ought to be doing them. Everywhere. I'm new here, but I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't.
I have to do a bit of interpretation of the numbers in order to reach this conclusion, but I think that those people who like the split may very well like it simply because it gives them another accessible, and significant, competition. A district championship would serve that purpose, much like it does in Michigan.
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