scientific polls
you cheater ;]
scientific polls
The research method you are describing is called a survey. Surveys involve asking people a series of questions to gather data on their thoughts, opinions, or behaviors. Researchers use surveys to collect information from a large group of individuals efficiently.
A questionnaire or survey is a tool used to collect information from a group of people by asking them a series of questions. These questions can be structured or unstructured and can be used to gather data on opinions, experiences, preferences, or demographics. The responses are then analyzed to draw conclusions or make decisions based on the collected information.
People ask questions because they need information. You could talk without questions, but you'd never learn anything and would soon start pointing to things and asking questions with gestures!
If you are interviewing a librarian about library questions such as how many people ask questions each day, then it is a primary source. If you are asking a librarian where to find information about other topics, it is not a source of information. It is merely asking directions.
A person who conducts a survey is a surveyor.
The people who write stories for newspapers are known as journalists. They do this by collecting information from many people and gathering facts by asking questions.
Mostly by random people asking questions and other random people answering them. Some random people have good information and give good answers, other random people have valueless information and give junk answers. Some random people ask totally indecipherable questions that nobody can answer.
The answer is simple: they don't know how to search for that information ... and therefore they can't search for the information on how to search for that information either.
That process is typically referred to as conducting an interview. It involves asking targeted questions to gather information from a person or group of people in order to further an investigation or research.
Socrates
Asking someone questions