Who answered the garden survey?
1A community centre wants to learn whether residents would support opening a garden earlier in the morning. Staff place a survey link only in the centre's gardening club newsletter. Club members can choose whether to answer, and most of those who respond support the proposal. The staff record the responses accurately; no answer is changed or invented.
2A draft report states, 'Most residents support the earlier opening.' Noor objects to the word residents. People outside the club never received the link, and even among members, responding was voluntary. Accurate counting describes the answers received, but it does not establish that the respondents represent every group in the neighbourhood.
3Noor suggests contacting households beyond the club and providing a way for people without internet access to respond. She does not claim that these steps alone guarantee a perfectly representative result. The present survey is useful for describing its respondents, while a broader claim requires examining how people are reached and who actually answers. Nothing in the report establishes that most residents oppose the proposal either.