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Somebody needs to help these folks out with their website usability.  
Getting to any real information required a lot of click-throughs and 
back-tracking, and even after 15 minutes I have a virtually no idea how 
the respondents compare.  It IS very important stuff, but their message 
is going to get lost in all the obfuscation.  Summary data needs to be 
presented up front and in a form allowing direct descent into specifics 
and comparison.

The essay responses are good, but as they allow the respondents to 
further obfuscate and politicize, actual meaningful information gets 
even harder to find.  I think the addition of direct yes/no questions, 
multiple choice, and specified rating scales would be more informative.  
In contrast, the poll data on the relative importance of science as a 
debate topic on the same site is clear and quickly digestible.

For instance, I would like to simply know which of the people on the 
various science related committees think evolution by natural selection 
is true, what they think the age of the earth is, and if global warming 
is happening and if so what the source of it is.

But of course the real message, the scary message, is in the simple 
number of how many did not respond.  But maybe not being faced with 
essay questions would help that too.

Thanks for the link, I'm going to give that site this feedback (and 
more!) as well.

- Lorne

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On 10/18/2012 4:05 PM, Glenn A. Walsh wrote:
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> ScienceDebate.org and Scientific American asked 33 leaders of science-oriented congressional committees to respond.
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> http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2012/10/science-questions-congressional-leaders.html
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> gaw
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> Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director,
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