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> You're telling me if I asked 100 people on the street, Confronting people on the street with questions like this won't give you a representative sample of wh
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> You're telling me if I asked 100 people on the street,
Confronting people on the street with questions like this won't give you a representative sample of what people really think. The sort of people who support the system to maintain their class/lifestyle are likely to ignore your question or to perceive your activist intent and lie to you to avoid getting sucker punched by the 'crazy person on the street.'
- voisin 4y agoI think the poster was making the point of doing a survey. Perhaps not set on the actual method of that survey.
- yeeyeeyee 4y agoYep, I meant #2 from https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_the_street https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_the_street Idioms are hard! Want to apologize on behalf of the English language.