Just a little wording question
Hi all,
Really sorry, I know that this is kind of late. But I'm just wondering if 'extreme poverty' might be an extraneous part of question 2 (To what degree do you view homelessness and extreme poverty as a social problem in Vancouver.) In the interest of being more concise, I feel like the rest of the questions are very much focused on homelessness, and this seems to be a bit of an outlier.
I was going to remove it but I don't want to do so without some consensus.
Thoughts? Objections?
Hey, there's mention of extreme poverty in question 1 as well I think, but yeah I agree with you that it makes the survey more specific if we just focus on the issue of homelessness so I'm okay with taking that part out. Also, I don't know if this is necessary, but for question 4 (to what degree do you feel the government is responsible for aiding the homeless in Vancouver) , I was wondering if maybe we should be more specific about the level of government we're referring to. For example, add municipal or local government? I know it says "in Vancouver" at the end but it might be good to clarify. That sort of ties into question 5 though, so that might be redundant. Just a thought!
Okay, so I took out 'extreme poverty' from questions 1 and 2. I think that since we have question 5 following question 4, the level of government sort of works as an 'if so, then specify which' follow up to the initial question of how responsible government should be. I'm not sure if we need to change it but if we do then we probably would need to re-work both questions. I think it works well as it is, but I'm open to ways we could re-formulate it. Emily, was that what you were getting at?
Hey guys,
Taking out 'extreme poverty' sounds good to me. If we're referring to homelessness, I think that necessarily suggests a certain degree of poverty. And as for question 4 works actually because we don't want to prompt them, so by saying "in Vancouver" we might be suggesting that it should be at a municipal level. Plus, as Alanna says, we tackle that issue in question 5, so my vote is to leave it.