Recently I was doing questionnaires in my university and I had to talk to many people to ask them whether I they would do these damn questionnaires. Many people would agree immediately when I told them that it was for my thesis. Many would ask me how long it would take and depending on the time would say whether they were willing to participate or not, as they were also doing something. There were 2 times, 5m for 4 page questionnaire and 2m for 2 page questionnaire. In the case of 5m, about 10% would say that they did not have time, while for 2m, only 5% would really insist that they did not have time to do them. I expected that in case on 10m only 50% would actually do the questionnaires. Here you can see that people are generally friendly and if you have something minimally normal to say, they will listen. In all my questionnaires (5 and 2m) I just had 3 people that really blown me away. 1 of them was specially rude. Even with 1000s of approaches, I took it hard to the heart, thats how bad it was. That 1 blow made me doubt myself to approach other people for questionnaires... however I remembered that statistically that was 1% of all people! Digging deeper, I found out that actually of all these 100s of questionnaires about 5% where badly filled, not in the sense that they forgot to put something, but in the sense that they did not pay attention to what they were doing to the point that I could not use theses questionnaires, and all these 5% were written by girls. Not 1 questionnaire in these 5% was from a guy. That means that some girls are so paranoid and men hatters that they even go to the extent to where they smile, but deep insight think bad things about me... However, remember that in 100s questionnaires, about 50% are girls and only about 10% of all people will really make an effort to screw you up. That makes more or less about 20% of all girls that will never care about you, no matter how hard you try, while 80% will give you a chance, not necessarily to get to sex, but at least to listen to you. Translating it to dating environment, people that are really busy and wont give you time are easily identifiable on the streets, because they are running from one place to another. However, the ones that are outside and are doing something, could technically at least listen to you, 80% of them! Only 5% will could ever hurt you with bad comments. Ignore them and concentrate on other 80%! Cheers, Tiger
Nice experiment! There's a tendency to assume that most people will be cranky, but most people are actually pretty NICE !
