RE: [gnso-ff-pdp-may08] i need some help formulating options for "next steps"

["Mike O'Connor" <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:23 PM 8/25/2008, Joe St Sauver wrote:
> #to your question about the little green boxes -- i'm hoping that when
> #you click on the box, you'll either see choices (mostly yes or no,
> #but sometimes little lists) or freeform.  try clicking on one of the
> #boxes with "- - -" in it.  it should drop a list from which you can
> #choose your answer.  the pre-formatting is there so that i can do
> #arithmetic on the responses.
>
> Ah, cool... I'd never seen that before (but I'm not a huge user/fan of
> MS Office).
hopefully it works the same way if you open it in OpenOffice...  i 
don't have a copy on this machine.

> For the Y/N only items, would it make sense to remove the "second choice"
> green field? (If you've answered Y or N, that's probably about it, eh?)
yeah -- it's a work-around.  consider the "- - -" as your "don't 
know", "no answer" choice.  i didn't want to pre-choose a default 
answer for folks

> Any interest in probing for *why* folks answer Y or N (e.g., add a short
> "Why?" text box?)
i'm mostly doing this as a poll.  let's wait and see what the blobs 
look like, then write out our arguments for/against if they're 
needed.  i'm kinda looking for 3 - 4 choices, with us recommending one.

> How about including a "Neutral" or "Don't know" choice as well for the
> current Y/N only items, too?
consider the "- - -" as that choice.

m