Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reducing salt content in soups, serving hot breakfast later, and eliminating knockwurst and pupu platter entrees were three of the top requests of students who filled out a food survey last spring...
...What effect will student reponses to the survey have? The questionnaire asks our opinion about several important campus issues, including the timing of fall semester exams and the creation of a student center. What would you do if the survey found a large majority advocating a student center? Or a pre-Christmas exam schedule? I doubt you will ever change the exam calendar simply because 99 percent of students want it that way. And what about the section asking for students to come up with ways of improving student/faculty contact? Who will read those responses? What will happen...
THESE criticisms are not meant to imply that the survey is worthless--statistics are a valuable, if unreliable, measure of student opinion. But as any undergraduate can attest, students and their lives are not reducible to numbers or measurement. A survey on the quality of College life can only begin to assess the qualitative problems they face...
...house system, as I have learned by filling out this survey, is singularly unsuccessful. But even if the overall survey results agree with my conclusion, what will be done about it? My guess is: Not much...
...cost of importing many of the products they sell, including apparel, has surged because of the fall in the value of the dollar. The result is a severe squeeze on profits. The industry benchmark for an acceptable annual profit is a 15% return on stockholders' equity. But a survey by Management Horizons of 300 large U.S. retailers showed that only 33 of them have met that minimum standard for the past three years. Some of the others may not be around a year from now. Warns K mart Chairman Joseph Antonini: "We are in a very, very overstored situation, whether...