OK, I'm a bit of a statistician (never tell the truth)
, so lets do some collective research and see what, if anything we can learn.
This is designed to answer the questions 'what percentage of AW emails are answered, and, how much difference, if any, does you own AW feedback make to response rate'. This will be very rough and ready, but, about 100 replies will make the result significant. I'll try and keep it going by bumping it occasionally. Other comments are welcome of course. The results will be published in the International Journal of Whoring
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To take part please answer these two Questions:
How many of your sent AW emails, do you estimate, get answered:
Answer
(1), less than 10%;
(2), less than 20%;
(3), less than 50%;
(4), less than 75%;
(5), More than 75%
Whats is your current AW feeback rating
Answer
(0) Zero
(1) less than 5
(2) less than 20
(3) less than 50
(4) More than 50
To respond click the 'quote' icon (upper right), then in the new quoted message write a YES after your answer. See my example response.
Don't get too anal, just have a stab at what your gut feeling about your email response rate.
It's only a bit of fun, a bit rule of thumb, but I'll produce a chart after enough responses and try to see if the results mean anything.