Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Now back to that lousy Thomas Reuters Foundation survey of women in the Arab world

You will understand more about the lousy results when you read this section. 2) the reason why the results are so skewed is that because they sent them mostly to people working in Saudi and Gulf-funded media and organizations, and the political biases of the funders came through.  There is some hilarious communication that went on between the Thomas Reuters Foundation and the women who received those questionnaires.  One Arab woman shared with me some of those communications.  In one of them, the woman from the Foundation wrote this in one email:  "Hi XXX.

We have received your answers. Thank you very much for taking the time to participate in our poll. It is greatly appreciated.

If you have any other colleagues or friends that you think might like to take it, I would be happy to circulate the email to them.

Many thanks again. "  That is one hell of a scientific survey.  ha ha ha