On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:17:34 -0800 (PST), Todd Liebergen
>Hello Everyone,
>For my senior thesis at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. I
>am studying the willingness of hybrid drivers to use plug-in stations
>if their cars had this capability.
>The results of this survey will provide valuable information for
>governments and green businesses that want to promote energy
>efficiency by developing recharging stations for electric vehicles.
>If you drive a hybrid car, please help me by answering this survey.
>The survey takes less than five minutes and your answers are
>anonymous.
>Visit the site below to fill out the survey:
>http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=CW55pWNjgHgFpByvpXgQOg_3d_3d
>You can also help by forwarding this email to friends and family that
>drive hybrids.
>Thank you SO MUCH for your help. You participation in this research is
>APPRECIATED!
As a retired person living in an apartment, I have no way to plug a
hybrid in at home (which is where one would want one, certainly).
Thereby, a plug-in hybrid would be useless to me.
> Visit the site below to fill out the survey:
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=CW55pWNjgHgFpByvpXgQOg_3d_3d
I stopped at #9:
"Consider the potential disadvantages to plugging-in described on the
first page. . . . "
Ordinarily I approach polls with an open mind and overlook minor errors.
But when the first question addresses an "essay" in the first page using
the pejorative term "disadvantages," it has become not an information
gathering poll but advocacy.
Since you claim to be students, perhaps your education might start with
my poll about polling and my 'first page':
"A push poll is a political campaign technique in which an individual or
organization attempts to influence or alter the view of respondents
under the guise of conducting a poll. In a push poll, large numbers of
respondents are contacted, and little or no effort is made to collect
and analyze response data. Instead, the push poll is a form of
telemarketing-based propaganda and rumor mongering, masquerading as a
poll. . . ."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll
If you wanted a USENET review of your point of view about plug-ins, why
did you not just post your "first page?"
(1) unable to control responses
(2) the first page essay is perfect and brooks no criticism
(3) political science student planning a career in politics
Do a fixed set of answers in a poll constitute a discussion?
(1) yes
(2) definitly
Pick one, USENET poll invitees are:
(1) dumb
(2) stupid
(3) unsophisticated
(4) fools
(5) dupes
Lewis & Clark teaches push polling:
(1) agree
(2) definitely
Bob Wilson
>For my senior thesis at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. I
>am studying the willingness of hybrid drivers to use plug-in stations
>if their cars had this capability.
>The results of this survey will provide valuable information for
>governments and green businesses that want to promote energy
>efficiency by developing recharging stations for electric vehicles.
>If you drive a hybrid car, please help me by answering this survey.
>The survey takes less than five minutes and your answers are
>anonymous.
>Visit the site below to fill out the survey:
>http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=CW55pWNjgHgFpByvpXgQOg_3d_3d
>You can also help by forwarding this email to friends and family that
>drive hybrids.
>Thank you SO MUCH for your help. You participation in this research is
>APPRECIATED!