Though I guess I suspect that, if the reason a person finds my original research not so useful is just because they arenât the target audience, theyâd 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 doesnât realise that the key reason it wasnât useful is that they werenât the target audience, or
the person feels that what theyâre focused on is substantially more important than anything else (because then theyâll perceive âuseful to themâ as meaning a very similar thing to âusefulâ)
In any case, Iâm 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 arenât the target audience, theyâd 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 doesnât realise that the key reason it wasnât useful is that they werenât the target audience, or
the person feels that what theyâre focused on is substantially more important than anything else (because then theyâll perceive âuseful to themâ as meaning a very similar thing to âusefulâ)
In any case, Iâm definitely just taking this survey as providing weak (though useful) evidence, and combining it with various other sources of evidence.
Seems reasonable