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I think it is so difficult to have a survey on the street in Tokyo.
Most of men in the street escape as soon as I talk to them.
So if you want to have a survey on the street in Tokyo, you'd better employ a lot of young and pretty girls.
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I had majored in sociology at an university. A few years ago, a girl asked to me. "What kind of study is sociology?" "It is a only study how send out questionnaires." I answered. I think my answer above was not completed. But I also think it was not incorrect. "Never conclude before questionnaires." I had always been told above words by many professors when I was a university student. Do you think it possible that concluding before questionnaires? I will give you an example. You have a survey "What do Japanese young women do at Christmas Eve?". And if you want to conclude "It is the trend of Japanese young women that staying city hotel with them boyfriends at Christmas Eve"... You'd better have questionnaires at the lounge of a city hotel on afternoon of December 24. You will be able to get a result you want. But do you think it is honest? It is not a "survey" in sociology. I think above example may be extreme. But even if you have a survey as honest as you can, samples will be biased in place they live or work, their age and income. So, when a result of a survey is published, its samples' data also have to be shown to people. Then it will be accepted that it is a honest survey. The larger samples are, the results will be close to real. But even national census, though it has over 100 million samples, its result will be affected by resident registrations. It will never tell about people that don't have resident cards. I think the results of surveys are only "informations"... |
