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Wizards Research: an Appeal for Help · Mechonomist Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Good afternoon, everyone.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: I always jokingly ask for people to subscribe to our Substack because I want tires
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  SPEAKER_00: for my redneck convertible.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is actually an actual appeal this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we need some money to run an ad on Facebook to get the responses to our survey.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have about 51 responses to the survey and can't really release the data just yet,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it is pretty significant that auto technicians are very unhappy.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: We've gotten a little pushback from the industry.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are partnering with some online influencers.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if we had,
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  SPEAKER_00: say, 10 people sign up for a year-long subscription at $30 a piece, that'd be $300.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we could run the survey on a...
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  SPEAKER_00: We could run the survey on an ad on Facebook and get the responses that we need
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  SPEAKER_00: to be able to certify the survey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the survey is about technician well-being.
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  SPEAKER_00: It asks questions about mental health for automotive technicians,
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  SPEAKER_00: and thus far the responses have been overwhelmingly negative.
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  SPEAKER_00: That may be a bit biased.
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  SPEAKER_00: We may be getting some of the more disgruntled technicians filling out the survey,
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  SPEAKER_00: so we want to run it on Facebook to try to get a good sample size and
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  SPEAKER_00: a good cross-section of technicians, including some who May be happy again.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're doing this research.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called,
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  SPEAKER_00: the name of the book,
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  SPEAKER_00: the research is for a book called Lost Wizards,
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  SPEAKER_00: How the Automotive Industry Destroys Its Geniuses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And where we've released the preliminary research article on ClueAnon a couple of months ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was called Wizards, A Historical Ethnography of the Auto Shop Floor.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we've done a little bit of ethnographic work and we're doing a survey right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And like I said earlier,
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  SPEAKER_00: the survey,
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  SPEAKER_00: overwhelmingly negative,
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  SPEAKER_00: surprisingly and shockingly,
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  SPEAKER_00: even for somebody like me who's in the industry and knows that it's bad,
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  SPEAKER_00: it is overwhelmingly and shockingly negative how bad,
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  SPEAKER_00: how unhappy technicians are right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the appeal is Sign up for the Substack.
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  SPEAKER_00: The money from theSubstack will go to running an ad on Facebook to get the
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  SPEAKER_00: number
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  SPEAKER_00: of responses we need to have a certified survey.
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  SPEAKER_00: My Substack is only $30 a year,
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  SPEAKER_00: so if we could get $10,
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  SPEAKER_00: we could run a $300 ad, which would give us Probably 150 more responses.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have 51 thus far.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm afraid that it might be a little bit biased to disgruntled technicians
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  SPEAKER_00: and would like to get a better cross-section of technicians and we can do
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  SPEAKER_00: that running a Facebook ad.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you are so inclined and you have 30 extra dollars,
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  SPEAKER_00: please sign up for the Mechonomist Substack.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I said,
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  SPEAKER_00: I've made this appeal before,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I've always made the appeal for tires for my truck.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is actually a real appeal,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it will help us to be able to get some good empirical data to back up this book.
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  SPEAKER_00: The book is called Lost Wizards, How the Auto Repair Industry Destroys Its Geniuses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and please sign up for the Substack.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace, y'all.