Anyway

As a small busi­ness own­er, I often get people call­ing up with some sur­vey or anoth­er. They want to know wheth­er my busi­ness is grow­ing, wheth­er I’ll be hir­ing more people this year, and what soft­ware and ser­vices I sell. If these sur­veys are the basis of the eco­nom­ic polls pre­dict­ing what’s hap­pen­ing this year, I’d advise the world to dis­count most of the answers. The ques­tions sounds like they were writ­ten pre­sup­pos­ing par­tic­u­lar answers; since the ques­tions often don’t make sense the answers won’t either.

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