Poll Results, or Houston We Have a Problem :)

[Guest guest]

Looking at the results of the second of the two polls, I see something a little

disturbing.

The poll asked: " What is your primary reason for being a member of this group? "

and the

results are as follows (my comments in square brackets):

 

- Because it's there., 0 votes, 0.00% [heh heh heh no one chose that Everest

eh?]

- To make vegetarian/vegan friends., 0 votes, 0.00% [Hey we can be friendly ]

- To find vegetarian/vegan recipes., 25 votes, 80.65% [okay, that's 25 out of 31

votes]

- To share vegetarian/vegan recipes with others., 5 votes, 16.13% [less than 1/6

of votes]

- To talk about vegetarian/vegan matters., 1 votes, 3.23% [1 lone soul talking

to self ]

 

Now look at the two answers that deal with recipes, if you will. Admittedly the

poll said

PRIMARY reason for being here - and a secondary reason might well be to share

recipes

with others (by sharing I mean to have give and take - you show me yours and

I'll show

you mine, etc. ) BUT I feel I have to comment that IF only 1/6th of active

members are

happy to offer recipes, we're in trouble my friends!

 

Now I'm not saying that we're going to crash the ship, but nor do I see us

endlessly

circling in space all hoping to find recipes with no or little chance of adding

more recipes

to the cache of excellent recipes already in the Files. You see?

 

Suggestions, please!!!!

 

Best love, Pat - Vegetarian Spice group owner and general dogsbody.

[Guest guest]

Are we the control group or the experimental group? Chill out... and

see who we are or who we become.

 

On Nov 20, 2006, at 2:26 PM, drpatsant wrote:

 

> Looking at the results of the second of the two polls, I see something

> a little disturbing.

> The poll asked: " What is your primary reason for being a member of this

> group? " and the

> results are as follows (my comments in square brackets):

>

> - Because it's there., 0 votes, 0.00% [heh heh heh no one chose that

> Everest eh?]

> - To make vegetarian/vegan friends., 0 votes, 0.00% [Hey we can be

> friendly ]

> - To find vegetarian/vegan recipes., 25 votes, 80.65% [okay, that's 25

> out of 31 votes]

> - To share vegetarian/vegan recipes with others., 5 votes, 16.13%

> [less than 1/6 of votes]

> - To talk about vegetarian/vegan matters., 1 votes, 3.23% [1 lone soul

> talking to self ]

>

> Now look at the two answers that deal with recipes, if you will.

> Admittedly the poll said

> PRIMARY reason for being here - and a secondary reason might well be

> to share recipes

> with others (by sharing I mean to have give and take - you show me

> yours and I'll show

> you mine, etc. ) BUT I feel I have to comment that IF only 1/6th of

> active members are

> happy to offer recipes, we're in trouble my friends!

>

> Now I'm not saying that we're going to crash the ship, but nor do I

> see us endlessly

> circling in space all hoping to find recipes with no or little chance

> of adding more recipes

> to the cache of excellent recipes already in the Files. You see?

>

> Suggestions, please!!!!

>

> Best love, Pat - Vegetarian Spice group owner and general dogsbody.

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

There may be other inferences to be teased out of the data. There are

1009 members of the group, yet only 31 responded to the poll. I'm not a

polling expert, but that seems very low.

People join these groups for many reasons. I joined to find recipes. I

know that I will never (probably never!) contribute a recipe (not a

cook, very busy with many other things, etc). But I get something

positive out of belonging to the group and I believe that folks who do

contribute recipes are making a significant contribution to the health

and well-being of the other 1084 of us!

If this is viewed as a problem, the perhaps the answer is to require a

recipe submission every year (or some appropriate time period) or you're

booted! But this is a bit of a tongue in cheek suggestion; I'm sure

that's not what the groups are about.

Do we know how many folks have contributed at least one recipe in the

past year? That would be an interesting metric.

v/s Jim

 

drpatsant wrote:

 

>Looking at the results of the second of the two polls, I see something a little

disturbing.

>The poll asked: " What is your primary reason for being a member of this group? "

and the

>results are as follows (my comments in square brackets):

>

>- Because it's there., 0 votes, 0.00% [heh heh heh no one chose that Everest

eh?]

>- To make vegetarian/vegan friends., 0 votes, 0.00% [Hey we can be friendly ]

>- To find vegetarian/vegan recipes., 25 votes, 80.65% [okay, thate's 25 out of

31 votes]

>- To share vegetarian/vegan recipes with others., 5 votes, 16.13% [less than

1/6 of votes]

>- To talk about vegetarian/vegan matters., 1 votes, 3.23% [1 lone soul talking

to self ]

>

>Now look at the two answers that deal with recipes, if you will. Admittedly the

poll said

>PRIMARY reason for being here - and a secondary reason might well be to share

recipes

>with others (by sharing I mean to have give and take - you show me yours and

I'll show

>you mine, etc. ) BUT I feel I have to comment that IF only 1/6th of active

members are

>happy to offer recipes, we're in trouble my friends!

>

>Now I'm not saying that we're going to crash the ship, but nor do I see us

endlessly

>circling in space all hoping to find recipes with no or little chance of adding

more recipes

>to the cache of excellent recipes already in the Files. You see?

>

>Suggestions, please!!!!

>

>Best love, Pat - Vegetarian Spice group owner and general dogsbody.

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Very cute, islandjim Ya think we're going to change into something else?

Alien critters

maybe??? As long as we're vegetarian critters, I'm cool about that if you are!

LOL

 

But I take it YOUR suggestion is to do nothing? OK. One vote for nothing.

Keeping score

 

Love, Pat

 

james singer <islandjim1 wrote:

 

> Are we the control group or the experimental group? Chill out... and

> see who we are or who we become.

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the response so quickly, Jim. jplynch wrote:

 

> There may be other inferences to be teased out of the data. There are

> 1009 members of the group, yet only 31 responded to the poll. I'm not a

> polling expert, but that seems very low.

 

Yup, that's low. But that's kinda typical for polls on this group Who wants

to answer polls

when there's food to be eaten and fun to be had!

 

> perhaps the answer is to require a

> recipe submission every year (or some appropriate time period) or you're

> booted! But this is a bit of a tongue in cheek suggestion. . .

 

LOL That WOULD be popular, eh? Nah, my 'Houston We Have A Problem' was tongue in

cheek too. I'm cool. I could just keep inflicting my own cullinary experiments

on you all

until you get so tired of them that you send in your own out of sheer

desperation! There's

a great suggestion.

 

Meanwhile we have a major holiday for those of you in the USA, right???

 

Have a happy!

 

Love, Pat (Group Owner/Host/Leader and Factotum)

[Guest guest]

Hi Pat,

 

 

 

I can understand your concern. I must admit that I did think long and hard

about which answer to pick as I would have preferred to have chosen BOTH to

receive and to share recipes.

 

 

 

Just to start the ball rolling in the right direction again I'll submit a

couple of my favourite recipes tonight.

 

 

 

Hugs from Marie in Haarlem, Netherlands