Survey shows overwhelming satisfaction with Montgomery County government and services

[Anonymous]

Turn out all the whining on DCUM is not representative of the general public.

I heard during Elrich's briefing today about a survey conducted about satisfaction with the livability, services, and governance of the county, and the poll numbers were astoundingly positive, even during the darkest days of Covid. Here are the results:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/OPI/survey2021.html

All of you complaining about how MoCo is horrible, anti-business, full of crime, and a useless government... you are wrong, the silent (not-constantly-online) majority disagrees with you.

Elrich is going to win. Again. Deal with it.

[Anonymous]

It appears 565 county residents out of the 5000 invited completed the survey. That’s not a large sample for a county this size. (The responses collected by the open link on county social media sites were not included in the main report.)

I don’t think this survey is very useful.

(Source: page 5)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It appears 565 county residents out of the 5000 invited completed the survey. That’s not a large sample for a county this size. (The responses collected by the open link on county social media sites were not included in the main report.)

I don’t think this survey is very useful.

(Source: page 5)

I don't think you're a statistician.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It appears 565 county residents out of the 5000 invited completed the survey. That’s not a large sample for a county this size. (The responses collected by the open link on county social media sites were not included in the main report.)

I don’t think this survey is very useful.

(Source: page 5)

I don't think you're a statistician.

Can 565 responses truly represent 1.1 million people? Do I need to be a statistician to answer that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It appears 565 county residents out of the 5000 invited completed the survey. That’s not a large sample for a county this size. (The responses collected by the open link on county social media sites were not included in the main report.)

I don’t think this survey is very useful.

(Source: page 5)

I don't think you're a statistician.

Can 565 responses truly represent 1.1 million people? Do I need to be a statistician to answer that?

It’s pretty standard as far as polls go. Wasn’t the UMD/Gonzalez poll that said Everyone Loves Hogan a sampling of 800 people, for the whole state?

[Anonymous]

Did they show the race, gender, age, income, educational level, and zip code of the 5000 invited residents and the 565 residents who filled the survey?
MC always targets selected population for their survey, feedback, and community engagements.
As a county resident for decades, I crushed one or two community engagement meetings accidentally but never received any invitation.

[Anonymous]

Don't know about others, but I'm satisfied with the County's services, and particularly its Covid response. But then again, we're NIH people, and science and medicine is what we practice every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It appears 565 county residents out of the 5000 invited completed the survey. That’s not a large sample for a county this size. (The responses collected by the open link on county social media sites were not included in the main report.)

I don’t think this survey is very useful.

(Source: page 5)

I don't think you're a statistician.

Can 565 responses truly represent 1.1 million people? Do I need to be a statistician to answer that?

It’s pretty standard as far as polls go. Wasn’t the UMD/Gonzalez poll that said Everyone Loves Hogan a sampling of 800 people, for the whole state?

It’s not standard. A standard poll is about 1,000 respondents. 565 respondents would lead to a very large margin of error on the responses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Don't know about others, but I'm satisfied with the County's services, and particularly its Covid response. But then again, we're NIH people, and science and medicine is what we practice every day.

I expected residents’ feelings toward the police to be a lot more negative considering the council’s constant vitriol toward MCPD. Perhaps the council needs to reevaluate their rhetoric.

[Anonymous]

Lmao. MoCo's economy stinks. It IS anti-business and has lost untold billions of dollars of GDP over the last 2 decades to NoVa simply because of how hostile MoCo is to business.

MoCo = a bunch of mediocre IQ dwellers who work for the govt, or for some crappy community activist organization. They all require more taxes to survive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It appears 565 county residents out of the 5000 invited completed the survey. That’s not a large sample for a county this size. (The responses collected by the open link on county social media sites were not included in the main report.)

I don’t think this survey is very useful.

(Source: page 5)

I don't think you're a statistician.

Can 565 responses truly represent 1.1 million people? Do I need to be a statistician to answer that?

Further, you would need to discard responses to get a sample that is representative. For instance, if 90% of the responses are from retired seniors, most of those responses are useless in representing the general population which is not 90% retired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lmao. MoCo's economy stinks. It IS anti-business and has lost untold billions of dollars of GDP over the last 2 decades to NoVa simply because of how hostile MoCo is to business.

MoCo = a bunch of mediocre IQ dwellers who work for the govt, or for some crappy community activist organization. They all require more taxes to survive.

How’s Ashburn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It appears 565 county residents out of the 5000 invited completed the survey. That’s not a large sample for a county this size. (The responses collected by the open link on county social media sites were not included in the main report.)

I don’t think this survey is very useful.

(Source: page 5)

+1 The fact that only 10% responded to the survey means it was highly skewed to the most motivated to respond, even if the residents invited were drawn randomly, which they may not have been. The results of this survey are not reliable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It appears 565 county residents out of the 5000 invited completed the survey. That’s not a large sample for a county this size. (The responses collected by the open link on county social media sites were not included in the main report.)

I don’t think this survey is very useful.

(Source: page 5)

I don't think you're a statistician.

Can 565 responses truly represent 1.1 million people? Do I need to be a statistician to answer that?

It’s pretty standard as far as polls go. Wasn’t the UMD/Gonzalez poll that said Everyone Loves Hogan a sampling of 800 people, for the whole state?

Highly unlikely this is a representative sample. And aside from the statistical merits, it definitely doesn't represent my 30 year MoCo resident's opinion...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Don't know about others, but I'm satisfied with the County's services, and particularly its Covid response. But then again, we're NIH people, and science and medicine is what we practice every day.

I expected residents’ feelings toward the police to be a lot more negative considering the council’s constant vitriol toward MCPD. Perhaps the council needs to reevaluate their rhetoric.

First, there's not much vitriol. Second, everyone understands it's political posturing. Third, most people are pro-police in their daily lives when it comes to their cars being broken into and packages stolen off their porch.