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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 5/25/99 10:03 PM MST


In Reply to: New Poll posted by michael bastoni on 5/25/99 6:14 PM MST:



Mike,

Many good points.

This is not the end of our polling. We have pushed to make general tools that we can put to our service as needed.

Brandon --The CGI Guy-- Martus has been very gracious in providing our team with the code to implement some very powerful tools and we owe him a great deal of thanks and praise.

But, you are right, we are not experts at this polling yet. This is our first attempt. As such it is much more of a shake down cruise than an actual get the results and run with them survey.

We are always going to be limited on the sample that we have taking the poll. Perhaps some day all teams will participate, we are not there yet.

As to team voting vs. individual voting, we have discussed some methods of weighting the data so that each voting team gets the same overall influence regardless of the actual number of members of their team that vote. We don't exactly have everything worked out yet on that one, so if you have suggestions, send them to us.

As to your particular poll request, I think that it would be GREAT idea to have such a poll. One suggestion is that we add 6 months and infinity as options.

I promise that this will be an upcoming poll.

We will pull together a method for suggesting a poll question. I think that part of the process should be to have a quiet period between the posting of the question and the actual voting so that there is a time for folks to debate the issue AND to discuss bias or ambiguities in the poll question.

Stay tuned...

Joe J.