John,
what I expected when I caused this poll to be created was that there would
be a significant number of people choosing "No, I do not wish to state an
opinion". For multiple reasons - "I trust the leadership to decide better
than I can" was one that people talking to me gave me, in addition to all
the ones you mention below.
So the number of people who chose this option was real information to me
(in something approaching the Shannon sense... information is the amount of
surprise you get....)
Of course, this poll also suffers from the fallacy that we are looking at
both the turnout and the distribution of answers before the poll closes,
thus influencing potential pollees..... I won't say more about my
interpretation of the poll before the announced "close date" (Wednesday).
Harald
--On 28. september 2004 07:27 -0400 John C Klensin <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com>
wrote:
To combine "I don't have an opinion", "I don't think the options
provided here even approximately represents my opinion", "I have
an opinion but am fearful about telling you", "this discussion
has been so confusing that I have no way to decide", I don't
choose to spend my time worrying about things like this", is
tricky business, however unintentionally. Doing so with a
single question identified as "No, I do not wish to state an
opinion" makes it worse in some ways. At a minimum, one should
be extremely careful in interpreting answers to that sort of
question. And one should be equally careful in interpreting any
of the other answers if this option gets non-trivial answers.
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