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February 11, 2008
Surveys Highlight Transit
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includes using Blight-O to reduce dependence on redevelopment agency(RDA). On Friday I posted a draft version of the questions/script the city hired consultants may use when doing their telephone survey. That survey is associated with city services and budget issues. I don't know much about surveys or how they statistically verify the responses, but I thought the directions to the survey giver were as interesting as the questions. Meanwhile the General Plan has been performing surveys as well. In addition to a phone survey (results here), that is different from the script I recently posted, the General Plan consultants are taking live surveys. One posted on the General Plan web site (see here) was taken at the December 8th and 10th workshops. It included three questions, and the top answers can be seen below. There is also a workshop scheduled for CSU Chico and Butte College students and faculty this Wednesday at 7PM (see details here). The top live survey results seem to show different priorities than the previous phone survey conducted for the General Plan update. This probably indicates the difference in personality between workshop attendees and people that will take a cold-call survey. I'm not sure how consultants can combine the information. Do live survey results from people who are actively engaged in the planning process trump phone surveys? When student views are incorporated from the upcoming workshop what cross-section of students/faculty will we be hearing from? I don't know anyone that has attended a General Plan workshop, or that plans to attend them, unless it was part of their job. I don't know of anyone that has taken a city phone survey. It's hard to make a connection between the various survey results and the neighborhood I live in. I wonder if that's a common feeling. |
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CI Challenge: Can you guess what it is? Winner: Anthony Watts master of all things brassy and sciency. See comments below for the answer. |
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Posted by Lon at February 11, 2008 07:42 AM
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Is it the eyepiece on a big scope?
Posted by: Gregg Payne at February 11, 2008 08:21 AM
" It's hard to make a connection between the various survey results and the neighborhood I live in. I wonder if that's a common feeling."
Bingo! You have hit the nail on the head, my dear boy.
Posted by: she who shall remain unnamed and unacknowledged, but who shall persist to be a pain in the ass anywa at February 11, 2008 08:43 AM
CIC is a surveyors transit
Posted by: Anthony at February 11, 2008 08:44 AM
CIC looks like a piece of survey equipment that land surveyors use - an old one.
I'm pretty tired of surveys. No, what I'm pretty tired of is a lot of money being spent on surveys, then the surveys being used inappropriately.
Policy should not be created from or justified by surveys. Surveys can be manipulated a million ways - what you ask, how you ask it, what time you call...etc.etc.
Posted by: Tina at February 11, 2008 08:50 AM
Apply Blight-O directly to forehead. Apply Blight-O directly to forehead. Apply Blight-O directly to forehead.
Posted by: TrevHastings at February 11, 2008 09:32 AM
Or, more accurately, CIC is a theodolite.
Posted by: Tina at February 11, 2008 10:09 PM
Tina,
I had to look up theodolite, but that seems to cover it as well. Thanks for my new vocabulary word of the day.
I failed to post this morning after suffering through an awful fever and chills yesterday. I barely made it to work today. Hopefully tomorrw will be better.
Lon
Posted by: Lon at February 12, 2008 10:24 AM
Bummer! I told you to not let those little carriers breath on you. Now look!
I hate it when Anthony snoozes in and still gets it. I was thinking of the Lick Observatory scope on Kris Koenig's 400 Years of the Telescope blog. It's down by Big Sur. (As in survey, get it?) Anyway it's old, brassy and sciency too. Looks pretty close...
http://www.norcalblogs.com/telescope/2007/08/reflections_on_our_visit_to_mt.html
Posted by: Gregg Payne at February 12, 2008 04:43 PM
Lon,
You can thank Mark for your new vocabulary word of the day. He's a land surveyor - one of his many talents.
My sympathies for your illness. Isn't your body an incredible piece of equipment, to be able to rally and fight off an illness without any input from you? Never ceases to amaze me.
I'm an RN and my prescription (though legally that is beyond my scope of practice) is to Go Home and Rest! Drink water and broth. Rest some more. Gargle with Listerine. Rest some more. We can all survive without Commission Impossible for a day or two (but just barely).
Hope you feel better soon.
Tina
Posted by: Tina at February 12, 2008 04:45 PM