From: annie (dlvdisc@geekbabe.com)
Date: Thu May 31 2007 - 14:02:31 CDT
I'm not going to comment on all of the questions, just those that
for some reason have attracted my attention.
Your comments, on any of the results, however, are most welcome
and encouraged.
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+What is your approximate age?
If we plot this as a graph, here's what we get ... (hope this
displays on your system)
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Nice bell curve with a crack in it! :)
+Approximate average age: 54.82
This has been fairly consistent over the years of this survey. Slight
variations, but remaining in this range.
. . . . .
Public exposure:
+Approximate length of experience with regard to appearing in public.
+About how often do you get any significant public exposure?
We're going to be re-doing these questions. In looking over the
survey responses there were a number of them that were quite
inconsistent with other data. I have to say "validity of data
questionable" for these two, sorry.
. . . . .
Other events:
Southern Comfort Conference 30
Holy Atlanta, Batman! Highest response ever to any "other event"
question in the history of this survey. Since most of the takers
of the survey were returnees, and have answered this in the past,
we can only assume that DLV has had a contingent at SCC the last
couple years.
. . . . .
Hotels, satisfaction:
+St Tropez:
+Definitely satisfied: 4
+Mostly satisfied: 6
+Neutral: 1
New kid on the block scored well. Personal reports I've heard were
very positive.
All other hotel responses were close to what was expected except:
+Imperial Palace:
+Definitely not: 1
Care to comment as to why?
. . .
+Other hotels:
+Definitely satisfied (Stratosphere) (3 responses)
My guess is that Stratosphere is a strong candidate for once
again being one of our suggested hotels.
. . .
Hotels, comfort:
Looks like the comfort was right where it was expected at all of
them, except for:
Imperial Palace:
Very uncomfortable: 1
If that's you, please give us some details.
. . . . .
Activities, enjoyment:
This was one of the highest rated years, as far as enjoyment is
concerned, since we started doing this survey.
+Dinner and Welcome Celebration, Suede: 3.81 (60 responses)
Major slip downward. :(
With 60 responses, representing most of those present, this has
to be a valid number, and the slippage of Suede most definitely
correlates with the verbal remarks I hears and the survey comments.
Even with all of the complaints I heard (and I heard a lot of
them, more about Suede than all other activities combined, it
still scored an "almost 4", which shows to me that people enjoyed
the activity as a whole, and the company, just not the food.
. . .
+Night of the Soiled Doves: 4.75 (28 responses) (2 no-shows)
This is again back on top, and one of the things that does make
DLV unique. As many of you know, this slipped quite a bit the
second year we did it, but it's held its own the past two years.
. . . . .
+Art Tour, Wednesday: 5.0 (7 responses) **DING**!
+Theater Night, Wednesday: 5.0 (7 responses) **DING**!
+English High Tea, Thursday: 5.0 (5 responses) **DING**!
Not attended by all, but lets us know that well-implemented
high-interest and special-interest activities such as this
are very well liked.
. . .
+SO's Get-together, Thursday: 5.0 (3 responses) (1 no-shows)
*DING* We have a winner! Thanks to Haze for doing this!
. . .
+Lunch With Lori, Harrahs, Thursday: 4.44 (18 responses)
I really enjoyed LWL at Harrahs, the food, the atmosphere, and
the company. :)
. . .
+Theater Night, Wednesday: 5.0 (7 responses) **DING**!
+Love show, Mirage, Thursday: 4.90 (11 responses) (1 no-show)
+Eating Out Night Prime Rib Loft option: 4.62 (8 responses)
All new for this year, and all highly rated. We most definitely
need to keep the new activity ideas coming. It's very clear that
a good percentage of them are winners!
. . .
+Charles Bar, Bellagio, Friday: 4.50 (14 responses)
Most improved for this year!
Charles mixes a mean drink at a very ex$pen$ive bar. It seems to
be establishing itself as a consistently well-liked activity
although it's expensive and occurs at 0-dark-hundred. It has in
past years placed all over the scale. I can see why this year's
CB session scored highly. Still some confusion as to what and
where the "Charles Bar" is. I had to talk one in like Air
Traffic Control, and somebody else ended up at another bar so
I just said to stay put and I got the truck and towed her in.
. . .
Honorable Mention for most improved this year has to go to:
+Dinner, Bahama Breeze, Friday: 4.56 (37 responses) (1 no-show)
The food was great, the seating was adequate, the service was
not warp-speed, but it wasn't slow either. The Jimmy Buffett
type guitarist was a very nice touch, not too loud, but very
good in setting the mood.
. . .
This is the first year since we started this survey that
I personally ...
+Mature Fashion Roundtable: 4.31 (22 responses) (1 no-show)
+Studio 54, Tuesday: 3.64 (25 responses) (3 no-shows)
.. had to indicate that there were a couple activities that I
signed up for but did not make it to.
. . .
As for comfort, everything scored 4.0 or above, except ...
+Eating Out Night Milano's option, Wednesday: 3.63 (11 responses)
I don't know why, but this bounces all over the place regarding
comfort. One year it's up in the 4.x range, next year it's back
in the 3.x range. Rinse, repeat. Any comments as to why this one
place is uncomfortable to some? And why the mood swings? :)
. . . . .
+Did you find yourself missing DLV activities because you either
+got into a time crunch or were simply too tired from previous
+activites?
+Seldom or never: 50
+Occasionally: 26
+Frequently: 9
With this affecting about 40% of the respondees to one degree or
another, we need to bring this up in ORG and be sure we don't
schedule things too tightly.
. . . . .
Lack of information:
I'm really at a total loss to explain these:
+I never received any phone numbers.: 4
+I was unaware the Big Sister program existed.: 4
+I was unaware of any roommate matching process.: 5
We talk over and over and over and over about Big Sisters, roommates,
things in the Large Final Mailing, and still we get a number of
these each year. How in the world can people miss these things?
But in particular this year ...
+What maps and directions?: 16
These are not only newbees, who I might expect to miss a few of
the things going on, there are returnees answering this way!
Was it because the map required a mouse click, as opposed to
popping up on the screen with fireworks and fanfare?
Did the entry with the map link actually fail to reach a
significant number of our attendees?
I don't know, you tell me?
. . . . .
+Considering all expenses of all types, what was the total
+amount you spent in order to attend and participate in DLV?
+Approximate average: 2279.10
Although DLV was one day shorter this year than last, and the
average number of days spent was about the same as last year,
this number is a significant increase from last year. ($1801)
. . . . .
+Which best indicates your feelings toward our increased attention
+to and enforcement of behavior, dress, and restroom guidelines?
+I support the current level of enforcement.: 69
+I don't like it, but I understand why it has to be.: 10
+It's a bunch of bullsh*t, knock it off!: 7
+The significance of the responses on this question will be
+discussed in a subsequent posting.
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Comments on any of this, gang?
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