Survey ??
Statistics says this, says that… ever wondered from where these stats comes from ??
I remember reading it in a newspaper that most of the stats are made on the fly…
And over the years I realized it to be true too. Never seen any such data being collected in my country.
But welcome to Nihon !!!
I visited a building today where they were doing a survey on the traffic in the building. There were people sitting on all 11 entry / exits with a ticker machine actually punching in the number of visitors. All visitors were given a card on entry and taken back on exit, this was done from morning 9AM till night 11 (I left the building that time). They had big envelops collecting these cards on hourly basis.
Wow too much of work !!
I wonder what this data will help them ? Traffic in any building changes everyday !!! The difference should be more than 500 people (Come on there are 10s of eat-out there).
Anyways, made me realize that ticker machine are still used :).
I remember reading it in a newspaper that most of the stats are made on the fly…
And over the years I realized it to be true too. Never seen any such data being collected in my country.
But welcome to Nihon !!!
I visited a building today where they were doing a survey on the traffic in the building. There were people sitting on all 11 entry / exits with a ticker machine actually punching in the number of visitors. All visitors were given a card on entry and taken back on exit, this was done from morning 9AM till night 11 (I left the building that time). They had big envelops collecting these cards on hourly basis.
Wow too much of work !!
I wonder what this data will help them ? Traffic in any building changes everyday !!! The difference should be more than 500 people (Come on there are 10s of eat-out there).
Anyways, made me realize that ticker machine are still used :).
posted by Jenifer | 11:29 PM
1 Comments:
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies and statistics;-) But I guess surveys are different. We all take surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.:>) And surveying the traffic on any buildidng probably help them to measure the *worst case * scenario in providing some basic facilities when there is max load on the infrastructure !!
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