I had mentioned, a couple of posts back, that the City of Toronto report on the MegaBin/Eucan trial engaged in some interesting number juggling and justification concerning the community’s response to the trial. Most interestingly, the authors of the report had concluded that the 2,387 on-line surveys, of which 85% were negative, could be marginalized in favour of the 199 interviews conducted on the street, of which, “83% support the initiative citing revenue generation as the primary motivator.”

The on-line survey was concluded to be “interested” in that the people filling out the on-line survey quite possibly came to it with an established opinion formed through reading newspapers stories on the trial or engaging in some independent research of their own. God forbid! (more…)