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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes that was a bad survey. (Survey methods professor here) The only question for elementary parents is just whether you think your current time is okay or not...waste of time, didn't collect meaningful information.[/quote]

Professor PP, has FCPS ever put out a good survey? I've never seen anything but complaints about their methods. Sometimes the complaints are that the survey was obviously designed to produce one result. Sometimes it is that the survey was so poorly designed it couldn't be meaningful, like you say here.

[b]And FCPS literally has in-house data employees plus hires these expensive consultants to make and analyze surveys[/b].[/quote]

This is what I don’t get. They have a whole office, ORSI, that has people with PhDs and other advanced degrees who are supposed to do surveys and data analysis. And they hire contractors for surveys (probably this one) who put together horrible surveys. My high schooler still remembers the calendar survey and is angry that the board ended up selecting a calendar totally different from any of the ones they asked about in the survey. And yet FCPS still claims they don’t have enough money from the county. Why are they never held accountable?[/quote]

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