In its latest survey, SUN looks to gather data regarding the opinions of Stapleton residents concerning the Eastbridge Town Center, mosquito control, high school programming, parks, and other retail development. For most of these questions, the answers are pretty obvious according to resident John Weber. “No King Soopers, kill all the mosquitoes, don’t care about innovative status–just build the high school, and more baseball fields and basketball courts. It’s pretty simple, and I am guessing 90% of the residents here agree with me.”
In fact, most residents do agree with Weber, but some are concerned with the fairness of the phrasing of the questions. “As a person in research, it is important to keep survey questions balanced, not leaning towards an answer,” said Robin Hayne. “Most of the questions in the survey seemed pretty biased.” Here were some of the questions from the SUN survey:
- Seriously, we need to kill these mosquitoes, right? (agree or strongly agree)
- We already have a King Soopers. We don’t need an exact replica in the Eastbridge town center. (agree or strongly agree)
- There is a shortage of baseball fields in NE Denver. Forest City and Denver need to commit to building more. (agree or strongly agree)
- How often do you shop at Walmart? (never, or I would never admit it)
- I want to have a HS with sufficient sports fields, but don’t care about innovative status, or completely understand what that even means. (agree or strongly agree)