This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am responding the Ursula's message about the Fjord Herald. My copy has not arrived yet, but I am concerned with the passages Ursula Jensen quoted.
I was appalled with the survey last year. It violated most tenants of survey design including lack of confidentiality, compound questions, and jargon. Worse yet, it is my understanding that the data was tabulated in separate sets by Board members. Unless they had a key and someone supervising the input questions, I suspect their input is flawed, too. It's totally ludicrous to claim any statistical validity at all for the membership survey. I sent a long letter to the Board about the design and expressed my profound hopes that NO policy decision would be based on this horribly flawed instrument. Both my husband and I work with surveys for a living. Surveys are helpful, but they have inherent limitations. I know the Board will be considering doing a breeders survey and I support that initiative. It would be helpful to know more about the collective experience we have breeding Fjords by live cover, transported semen and frozen semen. But I would hardly suggest that Board policy of any kind should be based on the results of that survey should it occur. The Board is getting ready to meet next weekend. My suggestion to interested members is that you contact Board members prior to the meeting and express your thoughts about the last membership survey as well as the part surveys should play in Board policy. Margaret Bogie Ironwood Farm www.ironwood-farm.com
