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| Authored by: uws archive on Wednesday, March 12 2003 @ 12:22 PM CST |
This is an archived comment posted by Craig Sloss. You can view the original
here. From your post:
"4. Students should be surveyed periodically
5. Feds should not support a referendum on strikable fees
So, we should ask students how they feel, but not necessarily give them what they want, eh? Good old double standards are at work once again people."
I fail to see how you interpret these points in this way. There is a fundamental difference between surveys and referenda. A survey (if conducted properly) is a scientific experiment in which the sample group is chosen in a way that the whole population is adequately represented. A referendum is an election in which the response is fairly random -- there is no control to ensure that the turnout reflects a cross-section of the population. Thus, a properly-conduted survey provides a more accurate measure of what students want.
In points 4 and 5, then, the committee is saying they favour a method that more accurately represents students' opinions -- not to mention the fact that there are many other reasons for favour surveys over referenda. For example, surveys allow more detailed questions to be asked and more useful information to be obtained, whereas a referendum reduces a complex question to the triviality of a yes/no question. [ Parent ]
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