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**provigil** · 09-21-2012, 09:45 AM

I have seen that clip Steve, and I agree with your post. When I first seen that clip I said to the person standing next to me 'Anyone can do those same interviews in any country in the world and once it is edited can have just as many dumb replies and clueless people'.

With enough searching one can find any group of people. With enough editing one can make a great video (and funny one at that). With enough imagination one can make a statistic say anything they like. To be honest I don't know anyone that naive, so I seriously doubt that the 1 in 5 number could in anyway be accurate. However in some parts of the country I am sure it could be possible. Really that would be unfair to use and twist statistics like that would it not?

Would it really be fair to interview 100 poor rice farmers from Udon Thani then publish a report saying that 98% of Thai people have never even heard of the internet? Or that only 25% of Thai people have finished High School? Just not fair use of numbers in my opinion.

09-21-2012, 09:45 AM	#1
provigil Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 493 Senior Member	I have seen that clip Steve, and I agree with your post. When I first seen that clip I said to the person standing next to me 'Anyone can do those same interviews in any country in the world and once it is edited can have just as many dumb replies and clueless people'. With enough searching one can find any group of people. With enough editing one can make a great video (and funny one at that). With enough imagination one can make a statistic say anything they like. To be honest I don't know anyone that naive, so I seriously doubt that the 1 in 5 number could in anyway be accurate. However in some parts of the country I am sure it could be possible. Really that would be unfair to use and twist statistics like that would it not? Would it really be fair to interview 100 poor rice farmers from Udon Thani then publish a report saying that 98% of Thai people have never even heard of the internet? Or that only 25% of Thai people have finished High School? Just not fair use of numbers in my opinion.
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