From: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Capclave Attendance
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:11:28 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

    Comparing 2002 attendees with 2003 non-attendees would be a good
technique for a presently hypothetical customer survey.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:59 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave Attendance

> strongl at sddc.army.mil 01/16/04 10:41AM
>    At the risk of interjecting some science into a smoffish discussion=
,
>has anyone ever made a serious study of why fans and others either do or =
do
>not attend [science fictional] conventions and what they're looking for =
when
>they do attend?  So far, we have a number of theories about hotels, =
dates,
>GOH's, and such, but it's still theorizing.  As fans ourselves, we might =
be
>considered to be a sample of the potential universe of attendees, but,
>obviously, we're not a big enough sample for some purposes.  Has anyone
>actually done a serious scientific study of con attendance?

The serious answer is that there has been no serious examination of your =
questions.  Atleast to my knowledge,

One thought would be to compare the 2002 & 2003 attendee list & contact =
the 2002 folks who didn't attend 2003 to ask them why.

mjw