Really salient points Kate.
And agree, the social media questions are slightly odd for a number of
reasons.
Regarding the other question - the survey participants are self selecting.
From memory, when Richard Ellis presented the results at the launch, there
is a cohort of *I think* aprox 150 orgs who have filled in every year. The
rest change yoy.
Katie
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Kate Smith <
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> Thankyou! If nothing else, this conversation will prompt me to dig a bit
> deeper into the Nesta stats before I send off the newsletter - life's
> sometimes too short to see if the findings are really warranted by the
> figures. At the very least these long term statistical reports should say
> upfront whether it's following the same group over several years, and if
> they are representative of the sector, or self-selecting. I might have to
> ask Nesta direct to dig this out.
>
> There is some useful stuff here - like the curve of how many organisations
> are on which social media platforms - but the thing to resist is to reduce
> that to a statistical competition, where, say 7% vs 9% of an artform using
> Flickr makes one 'better' rather than simply shaping their choices to their
> needs.
>
> Kate
>
> (btw, I have now realised the other messages in this thread are in
> September, and that I am indeed having a dim morning...)
>
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