perceptions

[cjwong]

current question wording: What do you think is the percentage of visible minorities in your community?

change to "LOCAL community".

should we change it to "What do you think is the percentage of visible minorities in your local community (which you just drew on the map)?" Or is this too clunky?

[rubenson]

How about:

"Thinking about the community you just drew, what percentage of the population do you think are visible minoritie?"

I know that's two "thinks" in one sentence but maybe we can come up with another word. I suppose we don't need to define "visible minority", do we? Well, too late now I guess!

On 2012-08-06, at 8:38 PM, "Cara Wong" reply@reply.github.com wrote:

current question wording: What do you think is the percentage of visible minorities in your community?

change to "LOCAL community".

should we change it to "What do you think is the percentage of visible minorities in your local community (which you just drew on the map)?" Or is this too clunky?

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[cjwong]

do canadians have a sense of what counts as a visible minority? we didn't use that language at all in the initial survey. i was asking vm here (1) to see if perceived %vm looks at all like the sum of all the other groups and (2) we use %vm as defined by the census (so no aboriginals) in our context analyses.

On Aug 6, 2012, at 3:22 PM, rubenson wrote:

How about:

"Thinking about the community you just drew, what percentage of the population do you think are visible minoritie?"

I know that's two "thinks" in one sentence but maybe we can come up with another word. I suppose we don't need to define "visible minority", do we? Well, too late now I guess!

On 2012-08-06, at 8:38 PM, "Cara Wong" reply@reply.github.com<mailto:reply@reply.github.com> wrote:

current question wording: What do you think is the percentage of visible minorities in your community?

change to "LOCAL community".

should we change it to "What do you think is the percentage of visible minorities in your local community (which you just drew on the map)?" Or is this too clunky?

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[rubenson]

I think it'll be fine to ask about vm. I do think most would understand what counts as vm.

On 2012-08-06, at 11:19 PM, "Cara Wong" notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:

do canadians have a sense of what counts as a visible minority? we didn't use that language at all in the initial survey. i was asking vm here (1) to see if perceived %vm looks at all like the sum of all the other groups and (2) we use %vm as defined by the census (so no aboriginals) in our context analyses.

On Aug 6, 2012, at 3:22 PM, rubenson wrote:

How about:

"Thinking about the community you just drew, what percentage of the population do you think are visible minoritie?"

I know that's two "thinks" in one sentence but maybe we can come up with another word. I suppose we don't need to define "visible minority", do we? Well, too late now I guess!

On 2012-08-06, at 8:38 PM, "Cara Wong" reply@reply.github.com<mailto:reply@reply.github.commailto:reply@reply.github.com> wrote:

current question wording: What do you think is the percentage of visible minorities in your community?

change to "LOCAL community".

should we change it to "What do you think is the percentage of visible minorities in your local community (which you just drew on the map)?" Or is this too clunky?

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[markmfredrickson]

I need some clarity on this issue: should I add local or make the bigger change with "Thinking..."

[cjwong]

Let's go with the following unless there are objections:

Thinking about the local community you just drew, what percentage of the population do you think are visible minorities?"

We should keep the second "think" to make it consistent across the perceptions questions. I tried "imagining", "considering", and "envisioning" for that first "thinking." None of these sounded right. I don't think Rs will throw a fit if we use "think" twice in the same sentence.

On Aug 7, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Mark Fredrickson wrote:

I need some clarity on this issue: should I add local or make the bigger change with "Thinking..."

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[rubenson]

Agreed.

On 2012-08-07, at 7:26 PM, Cara Wong wrote:

Let's go with the following unless there are objections:

Thinking about the local community you just drew, what percentage of the population do you think are visible minorities?"

We should keep the second "think" to make it consistent across the perceptions questions. I tried "imagining", "considering", and "envisioning" for that first "thinking." None of these sounded right. I don't think Rs will throw a fit if we use "think" twice in the same sentence.

On Aug 7, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Mark Fredrickson wrote:

I need some clarity on this issue: should I add local or make the bigger change with "Thinking..."

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[jwbowers]

Just FYI:

(defscreen vismin
  [subject]
  (seven-point-scale :vmcanada 0 100 "What do you think is the percentage of visible minorities in Canada?")
  (seven-point-scale :francophones 0 100 "What do you think is the percentage of Francophones in Canada?")
  (seven-point-scale :vmcommunity 0 100 "Thinking about the local community you just drew, what percentage of the population do you think are visible minorities?"))

[cjwong]

Thanks for pointing this out. How about changing the last question to match the earlier ones?

What do you think is the percentage of visible minorities in the local community you just drew?

On Aug 9, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Jake Bowers wrote:

Just FYI:

(defscreen vismin [subject](seven-point-scale :vmcanada 0 100) (seven-point-scale :francophones 0 100 "What do you think is the percentage of Francophones in Canada?") (seven-point-scale :vmcommunity 0 100 "Thinking about the local community you just drew, what percentage of the population do you think are visible minorities?"))

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