Bill's Blog July 27, 2011

[sgreco]

Originally Posted by Siri

I'd hesitate on that point. Most students who filled out this survey felt involved. I'm glad .899*sample students did so, but does anyone know the exact methodology the survey employed? Without knowing their sampling procedures, I'd be reluctant to extrapolate. The ones I used to do as a student were basically only filled out by leaders. The "you're involved if you think you are" standard itself does seem pretty reasonable in this case, though.

I agree (See my first post), but in my second post my point was not about the numbers in the survey, but rather about common misinterpretations of the goals of FIRST.

Originally Posted by sgreco

I'm not really saying this in response to anything, but given that these numbers are from a voluntary response survey, they mean very little to me.