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Pew is not some random company doing research - it's a well-respected non-profit that focuses on demographic and religious research and has been operating for ~
by mdorazio 5y ago
Pew is not some random company doing research - it's a well-respected non-profit that focuses on demographic and religious research and has been operating for ~17 years. I'm quite sure they know how to run a proper survey to account for things like language differences.
- Jensson 5y ago> I'm quite sure they know how to run a proper survey to account for things like language differences. I'm quite sure it is impossible to do that since there are no perfectly equivalent terms between languages for these things. The results can still be interesting, but if there are big outliers I'd look at that first. For example, what is included in the word "family"? Or "health"? Those things can cover very different things in different languages.
- james-redwood 5y agoYou'd be surprised at how incompetent big companies are sometimes. Used to do a lot of work with S&P500 companies and the amount of times we used to have problems with incompetent translations was startlingly high