Re: [Tools-discuss] polls "show of hands": can we include a "i don't understand" or "not enough information" option

FWIW, "binary questions hide information" matches my experience so far this
week.

I'm especially thinking of Gorry asking "who has read the draft?" in TSVWG
more than once, and realizing that he couldn't tell the difference between
"I haven't read the draft, but I care and I'm going to", and "I'm not going
to read the draft, because I don't care".

I am sympathetic to not dropping a dozen options for the group to read
through before clicking, but we can't even tell the difference between
packet congestion and packet corruption in TCP, if the only choices are
"ACKed" and "not ACKed".

I should also ask if this is a tool thng, or a social problem thing?

Best,

Spencer

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 1:05 PM Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
wrote:

> Currently, when there's a show of hands in meetecho, there are two
> actions any participant can take:
>
>  - raise my hand
>  - do not raise my hand
>
> in my experience, if a meeting has 100 participants, you're lucky to get
> 50 that select either of the above options.  At least half tend to give
> no response at all.
>
> There are two reasons to give neither response though:
>
>  - the question is confusing, invalid, wrong, i didn't understand it, or
>    i'm not sure of the answer
>
>  - i am asleep/bored/not paying attention
>
> It'd be nice to be able to to distinguish between these two large
> classes of non-responding participants.  This is akin to including an
> "N/A" or "Don't know" answer in a multiple choice survey.
>
> Could such a option be added?  I don't want clutter with a dozen extra
> options, but it would be useful to know how many people are paying
> attention but object to the binary framing for whatever reason.
>
>        --dkg
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