Just trying to understand: this is the percentage change of a percentage? Or the percentage change of the absolute retention? (I would be particularly interested in the latter, as the former could be muddied by successful efforts to have more people make a first contribution)
Lodewijk On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18 October 2017 at 18:32, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fae wrote: > >>Does the minus symbol in "-60.0%" mean anything? Being a retention > >>percentage, I do not understand how it can be negative unless > >>potential volunteers are getting rejected at the door before they can > >>sign-up. Could that be corrected? > > > > My understanding is that this means that the rentention percentage was > > 60% (or is it percentage points?) less than it was this time last > > year. > > > > So its now 5%, but this time last year it was 12%. > > > > -- > > bawolff > > Ah, thanks for the clarification. I have a background as a > mathematician, but that report with second-order numbers had me foxed. > > Now I think I understand the stats, I probably correctly appreciate > that whatever actions were taken in the last 12 months to retain > volunteers were not "non-successes", they are super fantastic > management team learning points for the coming year... > > Suggestion, throw away the current plan and rather than using findings > to create incremental improvement,[1] try something completely > different before all the wheels fall off. I look forward to seeing > some serious radical initiatives. > > Links: > 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog > > Thanks, > Fae > -- > [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
