(November 5, 2017 at 11:45 am)Jehanne Wrote:(November 5, 2017 at 3:32 am)Aegon Wrote: This is the second comment in the thread about this. Nobody knows how statistics and polling work... you guys need a crash course? I could make a topic lol
If they put a number down of people they surveyed then the answer is 100%. All of those people partook in this survey. They would not put that number otherwise. They're called respondents aren't they?
There are, of course, only so many philosophers in the World today. If their survey was not a census, then it was at least a quorum.
I did work in Statistical Process Control for 14 years, have a MBA from a major university, etc.
There are plenty of philosophers out there and I have read many of their writings.
However, I have only one credentialled philosopher that is personally known to me. At the time, I was teaching computer hardware and he was teaching COBOL. (we are back in the early nineties). Nice guy, total pussycat and so forth, I got on really well with the guy.
But, I had to ask when I found out that his primary degree was in philosophy how he ended up teaching COBOL on a vax platform. His answer was ironically philosophical.
He said, "I discovered that a degree in philosophy is effectively useless. Most graduates will get no job. I found that a graduate degree in philosophy will not butter my toast or put milk on my cornflakes, it is frankly a recipe for poverty, so what I did was leverage my degree to get into something that was real world useful so I could pay my bills and live a reasonable life and fuck you dave you just made me do philosophy you bastage"