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To Brian Collins and the five other respondents (thank you) I guess that I was a bit naive to think that a survey would be easy to organize. There have been only eight replies to the question and the two negative (not that yours was directly negative Brian) replies cast doubt on what I see as an essential base - a statistically valid response (from the membership). Given the obvious (the likelihood of a small and slow response), there will not be enough time to organize, collate and analyze the data before I lose the Internet connection. At this time, therefore, I regretfully will not attempt to start a survey now. In the few days since the original posting there have been several questions from people concerning new agonists and other drugs. I am still of the opinion that the concept of the survey is valid, but I believe the amount of time I have available is insufficient to carry out the survey. If people will support the survey I will try and organize something in March and/or April when I am back on the Internet. Brian, I agree with the three numbered suggestions set out below. If we can get the required interest, I will be prepared to be proactive and chase answers to get as near a valid sample as possible. Thanks very much for your support and interest. David Brian Collins wrote: > > it is the> problem of the small number of responses that typically result from such > a survey. It seems reasonable to expect a response in the realm of 100 to > 200 from the 1500 members of the list, and armed with that sort of data > we might begin to get some useful information. I would suggest a few > guidelines as follows: > > 1. Make the question(s) simple, unambiguous, and relevant > > 2 Phrase the question(s) in such a way that the answer(s) can be short > and direct. > > 3 Get the support of some of the more regular contributors to the list: > If they can stir their 'fan clubs' into action who knows - we might begin > to get somewhere. I suspect that if we could get one large-scale response, > and show the potential of 'people-power' it may begin to snowball into a > really useful service. - How many neurologists have access to 1500 > potential responders ? > > Re: the second opinion request, I am prepared to do this (Of course, I may > not agree with your findings, but I assume that you are prepared for this). > > Regards, > -- > Brian Collins <[log in to unmask]>