[Advocacy Advisors] Does the Foundation intend to propose any actual actions?

Mon Feb 18 05:18:55 UTC 2013

I've been working as a professional statistician for most of the past
two decades, in applied fields where problems result in immediate
failures of various algorithms. These opinion questions aren't
sophisticated. People will answer when they are asked. What do you
think makes sampling so difficult, in the case, for instance, of how
often advocacy actions should be proposed?

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Amgine <amgine at wikimedians.ca> wrote:
> As I don't think the list is interested in sampling methodology, I'll
> address that off-list.
>
> On 17/02/13 08:11 PM, James Salsman wrote:
>
>> ... and now it seems there is no interest in determining how offen the
>> community thinks advocacy actions should occur. It would not take very much
>> time, effort, or money to learn the answers to these questions.
>
>
> Well, I am not exactly an expert on this topic, but I believe you are simply
> wrong on all three points in your final sentence. To get useful data does
> take time, consideration, and usually that implies money as well - or social
> capital in enlisting expert volunteers whose efforts might be better spent
> on topics other than satisfying a single user's curiosity.
>
> Assuming you're wrong in those points, why-ever would anyone assume you're
> correct on any of the others?
>
> Amgine
>
>
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