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> There is a belief that many in government are not even checking their communications. That’s just propaganda, though. If this was happening, it’d be known to
by acdha 2y ago
> There is a belief that many in government are not even checking their communications.
That’s just propaganda, though. If this was happening, it’d be known to their management and the IT department could just run a report, and it’s not plausible that someone is going to do a better job checking a couple million emails arriving into a shared inbox with no other context. If you’re worried about slackers, you’d want to look at what they actually produce rather than their self-assessment.
- kcplate 2y agoMaybe it’s propaganda or maybe not. It’s a belief that has been made public by the people doing this so I imagine that its validity will be evident soon enough. However, it doesn’t matter if there is a better way to test this belief…this is the way they chose to do it and they are the ones get to decide on the “how”.
- acdha 2y agoIt doesn’t make sense as a serious effort: if they had data, they’d show it. If they were seriously looking to collect such data, they wouldn’t request a couple million email messages without the context needed to assess them. Now, if the goal is producing propaganda, it does make sense. That doesn’t need rigor, they just need a big number to toss out claiming that there are people collecting paychecks but not working. When it later turns out that, say, the big number was explained by people who weren’t scheduled to work on Monday or whose training includes not responding to messages outside of their chain of command, they won’t care because they’ve already moved on to the next batch.