> Indeed, we could have given a list of an arbitrary number of places - > Munich, Shanghai, Outer Hebrides, *Tristan da Cunha*, Nuaha...
LiveCode Conference to be held in Edinburgh*! *of the seven seas On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:41 AM Mark Waddingham <[email protected]> wrote: > > The survey asked if one were likely to attend; but as the choice of > > where one could attend was restricted the results would be > > like a self-fulfilling prophecy. > > Err - no - we had a shortlist of areas in which we know we could afford > to run a conference based on the data that we have (i.e. get enough > people to buy tickets to attend so that we can pay for the thing). > > The survey was about finding out which of those was likely to be the > most successful (in terms of a bums on seats metric). > > > Had you offered, say, Munich or somewhere on the Pacific rim > > (Shanghai???) you might have got quite a few people to say they might > > attend; but by restricting the choices you will never know. > > Indeed, we could have given a list of an arbitrary number of places - > Munich, Shanghai, Outer Hebrides, Tristan da Cunha, Nuaha... > > However all that would have done would be to reduce the focus of the > survey, meaning results would have been spread making it substantially > less useful. > > How do we know this? Because we've run surveys for conferences like that > in the past and they didn't really give us the information we really > needed because they were not focused and/or specific enough. > > Mark. > > -- > Mark Waddingham ~ [email protected] ~ http://www.livecode.com/ > LiveCode: Everyone can create apps > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
