On 30 September 2011 17:17, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As per Sue's report to the Board, which Erik
referred to [1]:
"The referendum did not directly ask whether respondents supported the idea
of the filter. It did ask this question:
*On a scale of 0 to 10, if 0 is strongly opposed, 5 is neutral and 10 is
strongly in favor, please give your view of the following: It is important
for the Wikimedia projects to offer this feature to readers.*
24,023 people responded to that question, with 23,754 selecting a number on
the scale. The result was mildly in favour of the filter, with an average
response of 5.7 and a median of 6."
This keeps coming up. Even if the median/average were useful (which they
arguably aren't, with the high number of 0s), the question was not "do you
support the idea of this filter".
The question was "do you think it is important Wikimedia projects should
offer this feature".
Michel