Half baked survey or half baked analysts?

While many do not bother much about surveys and survey findings, the latest survey by the Institute of Policy Studies is gaining some traction to the extent that some took it quite seriously. We have a race relations problem. You mean we don’t have a race relations problem until this survey came about? Or do they mean that we won’t have a race relations problem in the future if the right things are done? Heheheh, I didn’t know there are so many children around.

I did a very interesting survey myself and the results were stunning. 10% of the respondents said they will kill their parents. 30% said they will like to swap their parents. 40% will want to sell their wives. 60% of women would want to change their spouses. And 30% are very happy with their mother in laws. This survey was conducted without the input of race, so it is race free. The respondents were from all the races. Would the result be different if race is added? I dunno, but for sure it will rub people up the wrong way and they will be many stereotyping of the races by the analysts and the readers. And they will tell you, see, all racists!

Why would there be 10% wanting to kill their parents? Don’t they love their parents? Should this simple question elicit a 100% result or near there, that they all loved their parents? And 30%, horror, so many want to swap their parents, not happy with the parents who gave birth to them. As for the men who wanted to sell their wives and the wives who wanted to change their spouses, shouldn’t this be the natural response, or should the number be higher given the fact that familiarity breeds contempt, or once you get too close the spots became obvious and more difficult to live with?

And there are 30% who are happy with their mother in laws, the most undesirable part of a marriage equation! Should this be down to 1%?

Should the survey findings be different? Nay, when human nature is concerned, the results are likely to be the same like among every few good men or women there will be a few creeps, a few mad, a few insane. Does anyone really expect a survey on human perceptions of things or opinions be perfectly skewed in one way or another? Just like the Institute of Policy Studies survey, are the 20 or 30% of so called undesirable traits bad, unacceptable or should not be there that people are alarmed by them?

Even if the same person is to take a survey questionnaire, his answers would be different by the days and by his moods or by his gains or losses in the casinos. Surveys or analysts or readers that do not understand the flirtatious and superficiality of human nature would be worked up by the findings of surveys when in fact the answers are just the norm, something that will hardly change because human nature is such, unreliable, fickle and full of themselves.

So is it the problem of half baked surveys, or half baked analysts or half baked respondents? Or is it the fault of half baked readers that find survey results disagreeable or enlightening?