jwfacts:
Your suggestion is noted and appreciated.
We originally considered having a multiple choice answer, but decided against it. Multiple choice questions end up skewing the percentages for the results on the survey program we are using. Rather than bearing the huge expense of a more flexible survey program, we've had to make some compromises.
Yes, we can manage multiple choice for some applications (you see it in operation on the Global Survey), but then we have to use other means to calculate the number of actual participants. That's why there is a log in form for the Global Survey (we get our count of participants that way) versus the way we handle the more open Mini-Surveys which do not require a login before participation.
The real question on the survey is whether the responder had ever converted anyone they met while doing field service. We could have made that a simple YES/NO survey. Instead, what we opted for was to ask that question, and then, if the answer was by default a NO, then let the responder consider what his/her highest level of success to be and answer accordingly.
But as always, we look for suggestions and comments. We may do another mini-survey at a later date that revisits this subject and reword or set it up differently.
Perhaps we could have worded the question better or in a more specific way, but hindsight is always more perfect than when we are predicting potential shortcomings. I am blessed with both excellent hindsight and innumerable shortcomings...
I am assuming that if you've actually responded then you would be one of the very few who has actually converted someone you witnessed to a the door (about 8% of the responses as of tonight). That is the real question we were hoping to have answered.
Paul. my guess is that that you are (or were) part of a relatively small minority that is growing smaller each year.
JV
