Re: [amsat-bb] Re:President's April Letter & AMSAT-DL web site

["Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  This survey should define our membership  
> > requirements. Names were taken at random  and the number of 400 is  statistically 
> > very accurate to present a good picture of membership needs.

> With an usual return of about 5% on theses survey, why not made
> it available to the membership on AMSAT web site and put all the
> generous "charitable" given $$$ into the echo and or "eagle" pot?

If the participants in a survey are self-selected, then the results
are skewed, probably even worse than by undersampling.  Lack of 
responses probably convey useful information as well.

louie



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