When no one has any knowledge of what the others are doing, you get collective wisdom. You get individual errors that cancel out other errors, and you end up with a golden mean that beats the best experts.
An interesting point, but did you really think I intended the e-mail addresses submitted to be published? I've never taken, let alone seen, a survey that disclosed the identities of participants, but many collect e-mail addresses. At the risk of sounding too sarcastic, ahem:
"unless you mean that we should see the results at the end"
Yes, that's what I meant when I said:
"it's important that survey participants be party to the results"
=)
Most surveys offer to e-mail the published findings to participants as a thank-you for their contributions. I'm suggesting this one might see a better response rate if it did, as well.
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