2014-03-07 17:25 GMT+01:00 Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org:
We could obviously have generated many more responses if we had wanted to. Any thoughts on when/how we should do that, if ever?
DG MARKT has not released any statements on the methodology of the consulation analysis. According to Kerstin Jorna from the commission, the methodology will be developed "on the fly" while they are reading the responses. Most likely, similar/identical statements will be considered as one statement. Multiplying the number of responses to the commission will most likely not have a beneficial effect in this case.
There might be future opportunities with a different calculation. Or we might come up with a plan of creating many many responses that will not be considered identical in nature and counted as one.
The next opportunity in my opinion, however, is a different one: Analysis of the consultation raw data. Several people have urged DG MARKT to release the raw data as soon as possible. If this happens soon and if we manage to conduct analysis of the responses before the commission, we can shape the perception of this consultation. This would be a work item with high effort and potential high reward.
Mathias