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hash
Joined: 17 Dec 2014 Posts: 456 Location: Wadi Jinn
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veiledsentiments
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Yet more evidence of the decline in the quality of gallup... now pretty much useless results. LOL
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gregory999
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EFL Educator
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 4:45 am Post subject: |
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Happiness is a choice.... |
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dragonpiwo
Joined: 04 Mar 2013 Posts: 1650 Location: Berlin
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 6:15 pm Post subject: erm |
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I'm sure no women were polled. |
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DosEquisX
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madrileno
Joined: 19 Aug 2010 Posts: 270 Location: Salalah, Oman
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 6:22 am Post subject: Re: erm |
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dragonpiwo wrote: |
I'm sure no women were polled. |
With absurd results like this, they probably only polled Saudi princes. |
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myohmy
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Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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I believe the poll results. Ignorance is bliss. |
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plumpy nut
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Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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Possible the results are skewed for the KSA. It's in no way a normal country. I wonder if you could adjust for a culture that is socially lobotomized. |
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sheikh radlinrol
Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain
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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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This poll doesn´t surprise me at all. I thought the young men I taught there always seemed very content. Their aspirations in life were easily attainable and there was a nice atmosphere of solidarity among them.
My boss told me that while KSA was backward in many ways they were light years in front of us in social skills. |
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myohmy
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 6:42 am Post subject: |
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LOL. That's the most humorous thing I've ever heard about the Saudis. Social skills, my butt. Ignorance is bliss is more like it. |
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scot47
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 9:34 am Post subject: |
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Given the choice of teaching male Saudis aged 18-25 and Brits of the same age, I know what I would choose ! |
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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It is very hard to poll residents of the Middle East. This was part of my research classes at AUC related to having survey questions with our thesis. There is a social tendency to "please the questioner" so you tell him what you think he wants to hear. They don't tend to think in terms of what their real answer is.
Anyone who has ever asked directions in this part of the world knows what it is like. Everyone will say they know the way and send you off... even though most won't have a clue where you want to go. I remember trying to find this famous cafe in Alexandria Egypt. It took almost 2 hours... and when we started we were within a half block. And this was with an Egyptian asking other Egyptians.
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bertonneau
Joined: 26 May 2009 Posts: 79 Location: Colorado USA
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Posted: Mon May 08, 2017 4:39 pm Post subject: Whatever! |
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Whatever! |
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