Including office staff inflated the study’s positive company attitudes

Evidence

Of the 1176 people questioned, 59 were salaried office workers and 110 were foremen, who generally had more positive attitudes to the company than the manual workers, thus significantly exaggerating the `positive’ resultsaccording to which some three-quarters of those questioned had a positive or very positive attitude to the company. Thus 70 per cent of salaried employees, 60 per cent of foremen, but only 45 per cent of workers thought they were adequately paid for their work. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2075

Categorization

• SHARE: A precise methodological caution about sampling composition — worth sharing with anyone doing survey work.
• XREF: connects to: Over-sampling office workers and foremen inflated positive company attitudes in the published study. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2075

Broader Connections

• Over-sampling office workers and foremen inflated positive company attitudes in the published study. #corroborates (0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2075