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Originally Posted by tooblue
Oh come on. Set aside the your skepticism and champion Archaea's cause ... dismantle the Analytic Social Psychologist's study!
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Where is the experimental design?
How was the survey administered?
What questions were asked?
How was the weighting of each question determined?
What kind of survey stratification was used (income, geography, ethnicity, age, sex, etc etc)?
What was the margin of error?
How many responses were available (eg. yes/no, agree/neutral/disagree, etc etc etc).
What was the sample size of St. Kitts versus the US?
How much variability is there in individual response? Monday, someone might be pretty happy and then Tuesday really sucks and kind of mutes their outlook on life.
The reasons why qualitative studies are inherently less reliable than quantitative studies should be more than self-evident.