Canadian Fishing Community Survey

[JohnF]

Greetings again Jocko.

The courtesy is the least I can do.

Thank you for your response. Your latest post has done the best job of explaining why you didn't like the inclusion of ethnicity in the survey.

Yes you are correct, I do realize that you mean profiling in the negative sense. Surveys do nothing but provide raw data, the interpretation of which is completely up to the people who analyze it. You are again correct that someone could use ethnicity as you stated to draw conclusions about fishing attitudes or money spent by race. I would like to think that the ethnicity question is not going to be used in a negative context. Maybe this person just wants a profile of the fishing community (which by your argument would be inaccurate anyway due to a lack of response from insulted ethnic anglers, so no need to bring that point back.). I don't know, I didn't design the survey...maybe they do have bad intentions.

 

 

Perhaps my perspective on the subject is skewed because I have never been discriminated against because of my race. Our experiences shape who we are after all.

We will have to agree to disagree, as I have a bunch of tackle to sort out from disappointing steelhead outing yesterday.

I look forward to your next fishing report.

 

Oops, sorry.

 

JF

Edited November 26, 2009 by JohnF