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Originally Posted by gblake
No, they told you and anyone else who looked at their votes, that they were neutral.
Neutral could and does mean many things.
It is simply incorrect to distill it down to a "refused to choose" sound bite.
Blake
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Regardless of how neutral responses
should be counted, the reality is they are probably going to be counted as being in favor of FIRST's proposal.
The reason for this is simple: anybody who is neutral will be just as supportive whether or not FIRST reverses its decision, and FIRST is quite sure that it wants what it said it wants.
Thus, from FIRST's perspective, the results of the poll are 55-45 against the proposal. Given the small sample size, this is probably close enough to 50-50 for an entity with even a slight confirmation bias to say that the community is largely undecided.
So, in reality, the survey gave you 4 options to say that you were against the proposal, and 6 options to say you were for it.