Re: Fwd: Reminder: Survey on planning for possible online IETF meetings

[Dave Lawrence <[e-mail]>]

Michael Richardson writes:
> Where I had a problem was that I had to think hard about how I'd adapt.

I suspect most of us struggled with that, because it's infinitely
complex in a way that I just don't think you can capture in a survey.
Hopefully some broad trends would be evident though.

Like, on the question about how many hours a day should be scheduled
for if it was in your least desirable time zone, I ranked the shortest
as first but the longest as second, because with the shortest I'd have
hopefully the least disruption to my sleep but with the longest I
could hopefully be more naturally awake for some of it.  But how do
you capture those thoughts in a way useful for analysis?  

The question about how easy things would be for various possibilities
around your least desirable time zone, well right off the bat that
seems to cap off "very easy" and "easy" as not being even valid
answers to the question.  I tried to rank them relatively from neutral
on down anyway, but maybe someone else would interpret that question
more like "well, I'll say very easy because of all the undesirable
choices this is least undesirable".

I have little doubt that the people who authored the survey feel just
as stressed about all the ambiguity involved  I expect they got it
good enough to still get useful signal out of it.