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[maevele]

anyone see what gave me the whatthefucks on this portion of the post con survey?


31. What is your highest level of educational attainment?
High school diploma
AA
BA/BS
MA/MS
MD/other professional
Ph.D.

Comments

[moondancerdrake.livejournal.com]

I know most suveys have that question for demigraphics, but I'm not seeing what it has to do with what a person liked or didn't like about Wiscon.

[bifemmefatale.livejournal.com]

Maybe they're using it to determine the usefulness or lack thereof of the academic track?

[moondancerdrake.livejournal.com]

Donno if it s a good guage of that. I don't have a degree, but I've go to the academic track panels. Though it still might be part of thier logic behind the question.

[maevele.livejournal.com]

it was in the general demographic section, so i'm used to their being a how edumacated q in that part of these things.

my wtf was, quite simply, no option for those who did not finish high school.

[angrylemur.livejournal.com]

Or for people who were educated in free skools, alternate schools, or homeschooling programs. I know a bunch of people who never even went to high school - or any type of school, for that matter, yet have still received an education.

So not only is there the assumption that people without education level X would not be at the con, there's also the assumption that other types of education are either also not represented, or not even really "education" at all.

Whee.

[moondancerdrake.livejournal.com]

Ah ha. I missed that part. I still have to do the survey. Yeah, I'm surprised by that.

[lady-alyria.livejournal.com]

educational attainment?

[chris462.livejournal.com]

LMAO @ "educational attainment". It's probably safe to assume that the survey author wasn't an english major.

[likeawoman.livejournal.com]

"educational attainment" is demographic jargon. the census uses that term.

[maevele.livejournal.com]

nope, not the word choice.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

I can try and find out an answer to that shit, if you'd like.

Apparently I am now on the ConCom!

[moondancerdrake.livejournal.com]

*evil laugh* That's awesome!

[likeawoman.livejournal.com]

"educational attainment" being census jargon, I'm gonna go with the assumption that all attendees will have attained a high school diploma.

[maevele.livejournal.com]

ding. because wtf would a dropout bw doing at a con for smart people, right?

[likeawoman.livejournal.com]

totally! they're busy fucking their cousins or holding up liquor stores or doing whatever it is the lumpen proletariat does, right?

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Did they ask other demographic questions? gender/race? It's a class designator, of course, and useful to the extent that any demographics are useful, yes?

[maevele.livejournal.com]

except not ev eryone graduated high school.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. This was either/or. Missed that.

Yeah; that's a DEFINITE wtf.