Though I guess I suspect that, if the reason a person finds my original research not so useful is just because they arenāt the target audience, theyād be more likely to either not explicitly comment on it or to say something about it not seeming relevant to them. (Rather than making a generic comment about it not seeming useful.)
But I guess this seems less likely in cases where:
the person doesnāt realise that the key reason it wasnāt useful is that they werenāt the target audience, or
the person feels that what theyāre focused on is substantially more important than anything else (because then theyāll perceive āuseful to themā as meaning a very similar thing to āusefulā)
In any case, Iām definitely just taking this survey as providing weak (though useful) evidence, and combining it with various other sources of evidence.
Good point.
Though I guess I suspect that, if the reason a person finds my original research not so useful is just because they arenāt the target audience, theyād be more likely to either not explicitly comment on it or to say something about it not seeming relevant to them. (Rather than making a generic comment about it not seeming useful.)
But I guess this seems less likely in cases where:
the person doesnāt realise that the key reason it wasnāt useful is that they werenāt the target audience, or
the person feels that what theyāre focused on is substantially more important than anything else (because then theyāll perceive āuseful to themā as meaning a very similar thing to āusefulā)
In any case, Iām definitely just taking this survey as providing weak (though useful) evidence, and combining it with various other sources of evidence.
Seems reasonable