"We got twice as many 'don't knows' compared with phone or personal surveys," says Mr. Garland.
Alford soon abandons the hunt and settles for anecdotes, personal surveys, interviews and thought experiments, many of which take him pretty far afield.
Epidemiologists usually conduct personal surveys or track hospital emergency room visits and calls to poison-control centers.
In addition, such automation makes analysis of enormous amount of data related to social networks possible and helps us to avoid subjective bias, such as the "self-report" format of personal surveys [6].
The survey included a firm-level survey targeted at firms and an employee (personal) survey targeted at persons re-employed by those firms; however, as the decision-maker in our theoretical model is the firm, only the corporate survey was used in this study.
She has produced a remarkable, encyclopaedic personal survey of literary and artistic responses to English sun and rain and cloud.
Through diligent personal survey and inspection, he provided a more extensive, frequent, and speedier mail service, both within the Colonies and to England.
A survey carried out by French catering union Synhorcat suggested 31% of restaurants (not including cafeterias, bars and fast food outlets) used industrially prepared foods Others claim the proportion is much higher – Xavier Denamur, restaurateur and fresh-food campaigner and filmmaker, carried out his own personal survey, which took him to dozens of restaurants throughout France.
I met Fuentes five years ago, but my relationship with his books, at least according to the personal survey I have just conducted, began in 1992, when I read The Death of Artemio Cruz and Aura and also Geography of the Novel.
Since "Trading Spaces" began 17 months ago, the hourlong show has captivated surprising numbers of people -- and 6 million take a look each week -- across demographic boundaries, though a personal survey indicates that it seems to be a special weakness of teenage girls, gay men, compulsive re-arrangers and people who like to watch "Friends".
Also, a (quite personal) survey of quantum computation is presented in order to give the readers a (unbalanced) panorama of the field.
