2018 Sunday snapshot - how are we doing? Ringers at 440 towers shared details of how their Sunday service ringing went on 7 January 2018. And while this is no more than a snapshot (see below), the results suggest that it’s not all doom and gloom - but we could be doing better.
How does this compare to the 2017 snapshot? In January 2017, I asked some similar questions for Sunday 8 January 2017. But I only asked ringers on Facebook, and used rather different questions. 186 towers responded. So it’s hard to make direct comparisons - and (see below about why this is no more than a snapshot) I may not even have asked about comparable days. Given these, I can only say tentatively that things are perhaps a little worse this year
Just a snapshot - why nothing here should be taken too seriously With 440 results (something over 6% of the total number of towers listed in Dove) it might be tempting to say that there are enough answers to start drawing some statistically significant conclusions. But I would say that we probably can’t do this. There are a number of reasons for this - not least of which is that I’m no statistician and have no real idea of how to design a survey. But other reasons for not wanting to rely too much on what we have here include
And the survey is limited. This is partly because I wanted to make it quick and easy to do, but also because asking about the quality of ringing is quite difficult - what I think is excellent ringing may be ringing that has you wondering if it’s even worth mentioning to people that the standard could be better. So this is nothing more than a snapshot. Like anything else, it gives us some idea of what is happening - but it’s not enough to rely on. A summary of responses is in the pdf below |
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