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it, the message is considered as “accepted”. When one of the three members did not answer
a message, it was considered as “not answered”.
The resending of the same message responds, at some extent, to the fact that if the
participants did not answer the message, the numbers were not cleared. None message was
rejected, but there were many messages that were not answered by the whole group, and
some participants ignored most of them.
Table 13 shows the scores each group got for following the instructions, the effectiveness in
their furniture movements and the time each group elapsed in the stages.
Two of the four groups did no go through a Planning stage, Group 1 and 4. As can be seen
in Table 13, the Group 4 had a very small amount of discussion time; this group did not
finish the task.
Stages / Group
1
2
3
4
Score
-47
97
41
-18
Effectiveness
288
160
55
100
Initial
0.098
0.066
0.065
0.254
Planning
-
0.219
0.126
-
Discussion
-
0.090
0.081
-
Implementation
0.872
0.630
0.753
0.746
Discussion
0.064
0.282
0.230
0.077
Reviewing
0.030
0.085
0.056
-
Discussion
0.002
0.064
0.056
-
Total Discussion
0.066
0.397
0.367
0.077
Table 13. Percentage of time elapsed in session stages with the facilitator
3.2.2 Discussion
Most of the messages from the facilitator were to try to balance participation, 45 of 49 as can
be seen in Table 12. From the 135 expected answers, almost a third (28.8%) did not arrive.
In Group 1, participant SB accepted the first two messages and then ignored the rest of
them, but they were all the same message addressed to SS asking to diminish his
participation. A similar condition can be found in Group 3 where participant SB ignored 11
messages, 7 of them addressed to encourage SS participation and 3 to encourage SA for
participation, while in this same Group 3, SS ignored 7 messages from which 4 were
addressed to him.
In summary, and although the answer to the specific question about the PVA that was
“How proper do you consider the posted messages were?” in a scale of 1 to 4 got a 2.57
average score, there is not a clear perception from the participants of the PVA.
